The Consequences of Appeasement & Concessions by Israel to the Arabs r1 - YJ Draiman
The Consequences of Appeasement & Concessions by Israel to the Arabs
The decisions made by the government of Israel since The six day war of 1967 leading up to Gaza war with Hamas July 2014, as well as those of the first ten months or so after the turnover of Gaza in 2004 began, have dumbfounded historians ever since.
The Arab PA leader Abbas makes a speech in front of the UN and announces that the Oslo Accord is no longer applicable and that he is not going to abide by its terms. Thereafter, Arab terror and violence, car ramming, knifing, stone throwing and every conceivable method of disturbance and destabilization is being applied. Any incident is an excuse to riot and cause havoc.
The Arab PA leader Abbas makes a speech in front of the UN and announces that the Oslo Accord is no longer applicable and that he is not going to abide by its terms. Thereafter, Arab terror and violence, car ramming, knifing, stone throwing and every conceivable method of disturbance and destabilization is being applied. Any incident is an excuse to riot and cause havoc.
The current Arab terror and violence facing the people of Israel, and the Arab claim to forbid Jews from Temple Mount, is a product of unprecedented restraint by Israel's government to Arab violence and the concern what world reaction would be, while sacrificing Jewish lives, and diminishing the safety and security of Israel and its people.
The appeasement of Israel to the Arabs-Palestinians, in particular, has been so often held up as an example of how not to deal with a rising terrorism and violence that it has become a stereotype.
Had Israel stood its ground and responded to terrorism or any violence with utmost force and zero tolerance, no holds barred. Israel would not be facing today’s crisis.
As many have said – appeasement, concessions and lack of proper response to terrorism is detrimental to Israel its people and the Jewish people worldwide.
Israel under International Law has the right to build and live in Judea and Samaria and any other territory formerly within the boundary of the Mandate for Palestine in 1920. As decried by the San Remo agreement, (which also allocated to the Arabs over 12 million sq. km. with a wealth of oil reserves and all of Palestine to the Jewish people) confirmed by the treaty of Sevres and Lausanne; and the 1919 Faisal Weizmann Agreement, of which terms are survived in perpetuity. Any deviation or prohibition is outright discrimination against Israel and the Jewish people. As past history has proven, concessions by Israel have only increased violence and terrorism.
Israel is an independent democratic sovereign country and it must operate and run the country without being dictated how to run the country and without outside interference, just like the U.S. and other countries.
It is time for Israel to respond with extreme force to quell terrorism, violence and rioting – no holds barred, zero tolerance.
Israel should inform all Arab leaders in greater Israel that if terror and violence continues they will hold them responsible and they will bear the consequences.
What the Arabs could not win in loosing four major wars against Israel, they won in playing the deceptive peace game. The Arabs all the while are building up arsenals that commit terror and educating their children to hate, commit terror and violence and to destroy Israel. While enriching; their own personal pockets with the billions contributed by the world to help the impoverished Arab-Palestinian.
The G7 and other nations want Arab Oil and for that, they will do anything! The end result ignoring reality will destroy them also. The Muslims are taking over Europe and more.
What a scheme – and the gullible delusional world is buying it hook line and sinker.
When will the World at large learn that the Arab-Muslims cannot be trusted; they consider all non-believers as their enemies. I hope the world takes of the blinders, before the Arab-Muslims take over Europe completely and than the United States and Canada, etc.
I wonder, how come in the nations of the world; No one is questioning the 21 Arab States established after WWI with over 12 million sq. km. - 5 million square miles of territory with a wealth of oil reserves, including Jordan's sovereignty, a country that never existed in history before WWI and which was established in violation of international law and treaties, on land originally allocated to the Jewish people in 1920 as their Jewish historical land, which included all of Palestine’s 120,000 sq. km. - 46,300 square miles of which 80% was illegally reallocated to the new state of Arab Jordan for the Arab-Palestinians.
If you question Israel's rights and territory you might as well question the sovereignty and territory of the other 21 Arab States set up at the same time by the same Supreme Allied Powers that set up the Jewish State. It is also an injustice ignoring that the Arab countries have terrorized and expelled over a million Jewish families and confiscated all their assets including businesses, homes and over 120,000 sq. km. of Jewish owned land for over 2,600 years, valued in the trillions of dollars. Most of the expelled Jewish families now are resettled in Israel and comprise over half the population.
YJ Draiman
The appeasement of Israel to the Arabs-Palestinians, in particular, has been so often held up as an example of how not to deal with a rising terrorism and violence that it has become a stereotype.
Had Israel stood its ground and responded to terrorism or any violence with utmost force and zero tolerance, no holds barred. Israel would not be facing today’s crisis.
As many have said – appeasement, concessions and lack of proper response to terrorism is detrimental to Israel its people and the Jewish people worldwide.
Israel under International Law has the right to build and live in Judea and Samaria and any other territory formerly within the boundary of the Mandate for Palestine in 1920. As decried by the San Remo agreement, (which also allocated to the Arabs over 12 million sq. km. with a wealth of oil reserves and all of Palestine to the Jewish people) confirmed by the treaty of Sevres and Lausanne; and the 1919 Faisal Weizmann Agreement, of which terms are survived in perpetuity. Any deviation or prohibition is outright discrimination against Israel and the Jewish people. As past history has proven, concessions by Israel have only increased violence and terrorism.
Israel is an independent democratic sovereign country and it must operate and run the country without being dictated how to run the country and without outside interference, just like the U.S. and other countries.
It is time for Israel to respond with extreme force to quell terrorism, violence and rioting – no holds barred, zero tolerance.
Israel should inform all Arab leaders in greater Israel that if terror and violence continues they will hold them responsible and they will bear the consequences.
What the Arabs could not win in loosing four major wars against Israel, they won in playing the deceptive peace game. The Arabs all the while are building up arsenals that commit terror and educating their children to hate, commit terror and violence and to destroy Israel. While enriching; their own personal pockets with the billions contributed by the world to help the impoverished Arab-Palestinian.
The G7 and other nations want Arab Oil and for that, they will do anything! The end result ignoring reality will destroy them also. The Muslims are taking over Europe and more.
What a scheme – and the gullible delusional world is buying it hook line and sinker.
When will the World at large learn that the Arab-Muslims cannot be trusted; they consider all non-believers as their enemies. I hope the world takes of the blinders, before the Arab-Muslims take over Europe completely and than the United States and Canada, etc.
I wonder, how come in the nations of the world; No one is questioning the 21 Arab States established after WWI with over 12 million sq. km. - 5 million square miles of territory with a wealth of oil reserves, including Jordan's sovereignty, a country that never existed in history before WWI and which was established in violation of international law and treaties, on land originally allocated to the Jewish people in 1920 as their Jewish historical land, which included all of Palestine’s 120,000 sq. km. - 46,300 square miles of which 80% was illegally reallocated to the new state of Arab Jordan for the Arab-Palestinians.
If you question Israel's rights and territory you might as well question the sovereignty and territory of the other 21 Arab States set up at the same time by the same Supreme Allied Powers that set up the Jewish State. It is also an injustice ignoring that the Arab countries have terrorized and expelled over a million Jewish families and confiscated all their assets including businesses, homes and over 120,000 sq. km. of Jewish owned land for over 2,600 years, valued in the trillions of dollars. Most of the expelled Jewish families now are resettled in Israel and comprise over half the population.
YJ Draiman
Israel it is time to re-establish complete Sovereignty over Judea and Samaria!
ReplyDeleteWhen is enough really enough? For the State of Israel and its elected officials, apparently, still not yet! Every delay is detrimental to Israel.
Israeli military occupation/liberation over Judea and Samaria aka “West Bank” is a 45-year-old mistake and must now end with Israel’s official annexation of the Jewish heartland, if annexation is needed at all, since returning to your own property does not need annexation; physical possession and control is enough. There should also be a withdrawal, not from any land but from the biased and prejudiced United Nations.
For the sake of Jewish identity, heritage, tradition and history – and of Israeli security and survivability, must be first and foremost – Israel should immediately assert sovereignty over Judea and Samaria (Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and west Menasheh), granting Palestinian Arabs the dignified options of permanent residency status or emigration with compensation.
Those Arabs who wish to remain should be allowed to do so and enjoy the rights of permanent residents while fulfilling the attendant responsibilities. Those who wish to leave should be paid fair market value for their property, plus a reasonable sum to cover moving expenses to Jordan (Palestine which is also Jewish land), or to the homes and 120,000 sq. km. of land (owned by the Jews for over 2,300 years) the Arab countries confiscated when they terrorized and expelled over a million Jewish families and their children, who today reside in Israel and comprise over half the population or elsewhere. Those who insist on violence should be dealt with accordingly with severe punishment and a death sentence to terrorists.
Israel should also withdraw immediately from the United Nations (whose full name seems more accurately to be UNAI, the United Nations Against Israel and is a parasitic criminal organization) and help found a robust league of democracies, a new body where human rights violators and criminals don’t preside over human rights councils and where blocs of Islamists, terrorists, murderers and communists don’t dictate to progressive republics. The UN might have arguably been the greatest endeavor man ever embarked upon; instead, it is a tiresome farce run by malevolent criminals and circus clowns. This is one club to which the Jew, and the Jewish State, should not belong and not wish to belong.
These are no extreme measures; rather, they are reasonable and moderate propositions representing nothing more than common sense. Such steps ought to have been taken long ago, and every day they delay its implementation, makes the situation worse.
Whatever Israel does or does not do, it will face global condemnation, like always. The world throughout history stood idle while Jews were persecuted, killed and demonized. Our sages taught us "If I am not for myself who is". Therefore, it only stands to reason that it should do what is necessary and proper for its fundamental needs as the Jewish national home and its people, and act both domestically and internationally with self-respect and determination on behalf of all its citizens and residents, Jewish or otherwise. Acting with halfheartedness and trepidation invites the world’s contempt like nothing else. Stop and overcome the Ghetto mentality, thus proceed to defend the Jewish people with no inhibition whatsoever and no restraint.
Israel, you are not the world’s punching bag; end the masochism. It’s enough already. NEVER AGAIN must be action, not just words. Stop bickering among yourselves. It is time to unify our people and face adversity as a unified Nation, that will be our ultimate victory and the key to our survival.
"A Unified Israel is a strong Israel"
YJ Draiman
Mahmoud Abbas the convicted terrorist
ReplyDeleteAbu Mazen. Mahmoud Abbas (a.k.a. Abu Mazen). The leader of the Arab PA, was born in 1935. He was one of the founding members of the ‘Fattah’ and one of the senior-most members of the Arab/Palestinian front. Abbas is also the leader of the Arab Palestinian Authority. He is also the mastermind financier of the Munich Olympic massacre and the hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro his men had killed the wheel chair bound Klinghoffer, they pushed him overboard. There is a criminal conviction against Mahmoud Abbas (a.k.a. Abu Mazen) with life in prison; he is an escaped convict with multiple murders. (There was also a reward for his capture by the German and U.S. authorities).
Mahmoud Abbas aka Abu Mazen has been a part of the Fattah leadership and has helped formulate and finance all of the terror tactics devised by this group and now exported to Islamic terror organizations around the world. These tactics include assassination, plane hijacking, car bombs, and homicide bombers, child soldiers used both in Lebanon and Israel, and hate education. Now, Israeli and Western movers and shakers have been inclined to sacrifice and overlook his 50-year terrorist track record on the altar of delusion and wishful thinking, which has sanctified Oslo and its offshoots (the Hebron and Wye Accords, the Road Map and the Disengagement Plan). A U.S. colloquialism states: “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.” Abu Mazen aka Mahmoud Abbas and his colleagues have fooled Israel and the U.S. and others since 1993. Are Israel and the world going to be fooled once again? Mahmoud Abbas aka Abu Mazen declared at his U.N speech in the summer of 2015 that he will not abide by the Terms of the Oslo Accord; therefore, The Oslo Accord is null and void. Israel can now retake full control and sovereignty over Judea and Samaria aka The West Bank.
Abbas incites and promotes terror and violence; he supports suicide bombers and educates the children to hate and violence. Abbas and his people are also stealing hundreds of millions of dollars designated to help the impoverished Arab/Palestinian masses.
YJ Draiman
In Israel; if we do not fight for our rights, we will not be here. It is a matter of survival.
ReplyDeleteAbbas the convicted murderer and financier of the Munich Massacre and the Achille Lauro murder.
Complain on Israel ignoring its Jewish roots and heritage of our nation.
The minute the U.N. (which can only recommends a non-binding resolutions which has no legal standing) its representatives or anyone else call Judea and Samaria aka West Bank occupied territory, than there is nobody to talk to. Jordan is also occupied territory. Moreover, all the Arab countries received over 12 million sq. km. of territory with a wealth of oil reserves, established after WWI and are also occupied territory; they were all allocated their territory by the Supreme Allied Powers at the same time they allocated Palestine aka The Land of Israel as the reconstituted National Home of The Jewish people in their historical land as international law, incorporating the 1917 Balfour Declaration and the Faisal Weizmann Agreement of 1919.
The Jewish people must fight for their rights and heritage, no concessions. Past concessions, appeasements and compromise by Israel to the Arabs have proved counterproductive and only increased terror and violence. Stop deluding your-selves the Arabs do not want peace; they want all of Israel without the Jews (Just like today, they expelled the Jews from Jordan, confiscated all their assets, including Real Estate property and prohibit Jews from living in Jordan and in the Arab PA in Judea and Samaria aka West Bank). When the Arabs teach and train their children to hate, commit terror and violence, and their charter calls for the destruction of Israel. You are dealing with the enemy and not a peace partner. NEVER AGAIN. Stop the Ghetto Victim Mentality.
The Arabs attacked Israel with superior men-power and weapons, in four wars since the British left The Land of Israel aka Palestine in 1948. They lost all four wars in utter defeat. It is time for the Arabs to face reality. The Land of Israel west of the Jordan River including ancient Jerusalem, which was liberated in four defensive wars; belongs to the Jewish people and will be retained by Israel and its Jewish population for eternity.
It is enough, that the Arabs have Jordan, which is Jewish territory given to them by the British in violation of Agreements, and the homes and over 120,000 sq. km. of land (owned by the Jews for over 2,500 years in the Arab/Muslim countries), the Arabs confiscated from the terrorized, expelled million Jewish families with their children (valued in the trillions of dollars), who lived in the Arab countries for over 2,700 years and now most of them were resettled in Israel, and today they comprise over half the population. The Arabs received over 12 million sq. km. of territory after WWI with a wealth of oil reserves, and 70% of that Arab territory is vacant.
YJ Draiman
The Arab countries terrorized and expelled a million Jewish families and confiscated all their assets including home and over 120,000 sq. km. of land.
How many holidays do the Arabs-Muslims celebrate due to historical events in the land of ancient Israel and Jerusalem. r9
ReplyDeleteThe Jewish people celebrate most of their holidays and fast days in memory of Jerusalem and Israel since 70 AD (that is over 2,000 years).
Jewish people pray at least 3 times a day, remembering Jerusalem and the Jewish Temple destruction. Pleading the Jewish goal and aspiration to return to Israel and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem - where it was before it was destroyed and desecrated by the enemies of the Jews. A mourning Jewish blessing states Jerusalem. Most of the Jewish prayers for thousands of years recite the love of Israel and the Jewish aspirations to return to their ancestral land and bring back its glory and holiness.
At Jewish weddings they break a glass in memory of Jerusalem and the aspiration to return and build the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.
Every day at the end of the meal the Jews recite a blessing and thank G-d for providing sustenance and beseech G-d to return and rebuild the temple in Jerusalem.
Most Jewish prayers mention our glorious memory of Jerusalem and the Jewish Temple and pleading to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple.
YJ Draiman
Unity above all
ReplyDeleteIndividually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean!
"We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers"
We must learn to respect each other no matter what the religious affiliation or secular. We are all Jews, one people and one nation.
We must look ahead and learn from past mistakes and not dwell on them and look for blame. We must be unified and with a cohesive effort, we will find a solution.
The one thing that is common to all of solutions is that they required — or at least relied on — the other party’s good will. But in the absence of such a will, every agreement you attempt to implement is doomed before it has even started. Therefore, we must look not at the agreements we can or can’t achieve with our neighbors, but rather look at the agreements that we can achieve with ourselves!
Our motto should be something like, “When the going gets tough, the good get going,” because this is all we need to do — lend a friendly hand to one another, no questions asked. As we have been told a million times before, this unity will unleash all the powers we need in order to resolve our problems: social, economic, and political — both internally and internationally.
“A Unified Israel is A Strong Israel”
YJ Draiman
Abbas AKA Abu Mazen the leader of the Arab PA is delusional as usual and is a wanted criminal.
ReplyDeleteThe UN and the UNESCO are advisory only and cannot dictate to sovereign nations any of its recommendations which are non-binding and have no legal standing - Check the Charter.
If Abbas keeps pushing the envelope there is a warrant for his arrest waiting for him and Israel can exercise its legal right to arrest him for his conviction for murder. Abbas is a wanted criminal with a reward on his head. It seems many ignore these facts and treat this demonic terrorist as a normal law abiding individual, which he is not.
The Area formerly known and called as Palestine aka The Land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people under International law and treaties.
The UN or the ICJ are only in advisory capacity with non-binding resolutions which has no legal standing, stop citing them if they are the law of the world, they are not.
I think when they are riots and killing in the US and other countries the UN should be able to post a force to protect the population, but I know that is against international law and the US and any other country would not permit such a move which violates their sovereignty.
Israel should give a 90 day notice the UN and the world at large that it intends to exercise its historical and international rights under the international law and treaties of post WWI including the 1919 Faisal Weizmann Agreement which are still in effect and have not been superseded. Under those treaties all of Palestine 120,000 sq. km. is in effect belongs to Israel.
Israel will no longer tolerate the deceptive term of occupation by Israel;
it is internationally guaranteed Jewish land liberated by Israel.
It is the Arabs who are the occupiers of Jewish Land.
The Arabs received over 12 million sq. km. of territory with a wealth of oil reserves after WWI and in 1922 received in violation of International law and Treaties the new Arab-Palestinian State of Jordan was established on Jewish allocated territory; they expelled the Jews and confiscated all their assets in Jordan and prohibiting Jews from residing in Jordan. The Arab countries also terrorized and expelled over a million Jewish families and confiscated all their assets, including personal valuables, businesses, homes and over 120,000 sq. km. of Jewish owned Real Estate for over 2,600 years, valued in the trillions of dollars. Most of the million expelled Jewish families and their children from Arab countries were resettled in Israel and today comprise over half the population.
YJ Draiman
Jewish Temple Mount in Jerusalem is Jewish territory including all the territory west of Jordan River and has been since prior to the building of the two Jewish temples which is over 3000 years.
YJ Draiman
Temple Mount in Jerusalem is Jewish territory and has been
ReplyDeleteSince, prior to the building of the two Jewish temples
(as a matter of fact King David of Israel had paid the Aruna the Jebusites money to purchase that property, to avoid conflict). Israel after liberating it in 1967 graciously permitted the
Arabs to continue to pray there. Now the time has come to terminate that
arrangement. It is the Arabs who are defiling The Jewish holy of holies.
After years of abuse of this privilege, by committing violence and violently
interfering with Jewish worshipers on a consistent basis, Israel has the right, duty and obligation to revoke that privilege.
Let us take back our sacred ground, once and for all.
I am sure the Arab-Muslim would not permit anyone in the world to build and
control the holy Muslim Site in Mecca.
Let the Arab-Muslim have Mecca and the Judeo-Christian have Jerusalem and the Temple Mount and relocate all the Arabs to the 120,000 sq. km. of territory the Arab countries confiscated from the million Jewish families they expelled and to Jordan which is Jewish territory.
YJ Draiman
The U.N. did not create Israel – it can only issue a non-binding recommendation or resolution, which has no legal standing - it only partially help to implement international law & treaty as proscribed by the Supreme Allied Powers in post WWI International Agreements
ReplyDeleteIn sum, modern Israel may credit its legal recreation to the Supreme
Allied Powers and its 1920 San Remo conference which incorporated the 1917 Balfour Declaration (which emulated 1799 Napoleon’s letter to the Jewish community in Israel) as international law; thereby reconstituting the Jewish National Home in Palestine in 1920 with the British as trustee and its
implementation by The League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, and its de
facto existence to the impatient belligerence of its enemies and the
consequent resolve of the Jewish people to survive. There was also the 1919 Faisal Weizmann Agreement which stated that all of Palestine is for the Jewish National Home while the Arabs received over 12 million sq. km. of territory with a wealth of oil reserves.
In 1948, after the British regime failed miserably, and abandoned its duty and obligation to implement the terms of the Mandate for Palestine aka The Land of Israel. The U.N. recognized that the Jews in Palestine-Israel have become a majority; as stated in the terms of international treaty and therefore the Jewish people can assume control of its own sovereignty. That took place on May 15, 1948. The Arab countries mobilized 6 armies to attack the recreated Jewish State and asked the local Arab population to leave their homes. The newly recreated Jewish State was able to defend itself and retained some of its allocated historical territory, which in 1967 defensive war; Israel was able to liberate the balance of its allocated territory under international agreements.
The Arab countries terrorized and expelled over a million Jewish families and confiscated all of their assets, personal valuables, businesses, homes and over 120,000 sq. km. of Jewish owned Real Estate for over 2,500 years, which is valued in the trillions of dollars. (They also expelled the Jews from Jordan and confiscated all their assets and prohibited Jews from residing or owning property in Jordan). Most of the million expelled Jewish families and their children now settled in Israel and comprise over half the population. Now the Arabs want to throw them out again from their own country,
AFSI - American Friends for a Safe Israel
Yj Draiman
ISRAEL’S DELUSIONAL COEXISTENCE WITH THE ARABS HAS FAILED MISERABLY
ReplyDeleteFrom the outset, Israel unwisely tried to include Arabs in Israeli life.
To this day, they continue to allow Arabs Palestinians within the borders, in a misguided belief that co-existence is possible.
The time is far past for Israel to act more wisely, exiling Arabs who will not
sign on to a statement that Israel has a right to exist and practice this statement, and that they have a right to the land of Israel itself as allocated under post WWI international law and treaties, including as described in the Faisal Weizmann Agreement of January 1919, which assigned all of Palestine aka The Land of Israel for the Jewish National Home, while the Arabs at that time received over 12 million sq. mi. with a wealth of oil reserves. That includes the new Arab state of Jordan which is situated on Jewish historical land and established by the British in violation of International Treaties and Agreements of post WWI.
You don't take a scorpion or poisonous snake in an embrace, and then express surprise that you were stung or bitten.
In addition, Israel has to take complete control of the Temple Mount area and Judea and Samaria, shooting any rock throwers, and expelling any Arabs/Muslims who abuse non-Muslims there and anywhere else, either physically or verbally.
Israel has to respond to any threat, including rockets launched at Israel with expedited and uncompromising response with zero tolerance and no holds barred.
Until the Israelis act wisely and forcefully, Israel will continue to be vulnerable to attacks from within.
It's not acceptable or reasonable to tolerate Arab violence, and the reality of Arab/Muslim hatred must be acknowledged and acted upon expeditiously without any deliberations or delay.
YJ Draiman
There must not be second guessing in killing a terrorist.
ReplyDelete“Israel’s Disproportionate and Callous Restraint.”
This policy by Israel’s government endangers the population of Israel and reduces safety and security.
A response with no holds barred and zero tolerance must be taken – less talk and more action and action speaks louder than words – take off the gloves and destroy the enemy and the threat once and for all. The British and Americans after rockets hit London in WWII sent bombers on a daily basis and destroyed German infrastructure and leveled cities. The U.S. to save American lives destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Israel must do what is necessary to protect its people with no restraint whatsoever and not pacifying the anti-Semitic world at large; which throughout history has persecuted the Jewish people and used them as scapegoats.
It is your duty and responsibility to protect the people of Israel at all costs. Do your duty. Death to all terrorists must be mandatory.
YJ Draiman
To me and to most Traditional Jews, Greater Israel is the Biblical Israel, which included a good part of the territory east of the Jordan River. The original allocation of Palestine aka The Historical Land of Israel to the Jewish people included the territory east of the Jordan River and up-to the Railroad line which is about 120,000 sq. km.. The best defense is offense, no capitulation to Arab or worldwide pressure; we want what is ours no exceptions. See the minutes of the 1919 Paris conference, The 1920 San Remo Conference and the Faisal Weizmann Agreement of January 1919. The Arabs-Muslims received over 12 million sq. km. with a wealth of oil reserves of which over half of it has no habitation, plus the British in violation of treaties and agreements gave away over 77% of allocated Jewish territory and created the new Arab-Palestinian state of Jordan and prohibiting Jews from living there and confiscating all their assets, and now the Biased U.N. with non-binding resolutions and no legal standing (which has no authority to create countries, modify borders and violate international treaties and agreements, it can only recommend a non-binding opinion/resolution with no legal standing) and other nations who are intentionally deceived and or misinformed, want Israel to cede again their own historical territory for over 3,500 years, Judea and Samaria as a second Arab-Palestinian state (and plant a terrorist state in the heart of Israel, just like Gaza), after the disastrous ceding of Gaza and the constant rocket attacks against Jewish communities in Israel). My response to that is it is not going to happen; it is suicide for Israel, this is Jewish land with a history going back over 3,800 years; Jews are the remaining indigenous people, with the Jewish holiest city Jerusalem and the Capital of Israel (It was never a Capital of any other nation). Moreover Jerusalem is the home to two Jewish temples and the city of Hebron as the 2nd holiest city for the Jews with the Cave of The Jewish Patriarchs (The atrocities and murder committed by the Arabs in Hebron against the Jews goes at least as far back as 1517). The Arabs also terrorized and expelled over a million Jewish families with their children and confiscated all their assets including, personal property, businesses, homes and about 120,000 sq. km. of Jewish owned Real Estate property and land for over 2,500 years; valued in the trillions of dollars. Most of the expelled Jewish families and their children were resettled in Israel, and today comprise over half the population. Any Jew who wants to cede land to the Arabs has no place in Israel, especially in view of past results that such land for peace has brought more terror and violence and less safety and security for Israel and its people.
ReplyDeleteNo Jew has the right or authority to cede Jewish territory and any such ceding of Jewish territory is not valid.
A bill in the Israel’s government reiterating that no Jewish land or authority west of the Jordan River will be ceded to anyone. It is Jewish territory for eternity.
“A United Israel is a strong Israel”
YJ Draiman, President of AFSI in the Greater Los Angeles area
AFSI – Americans for a Safe Israel
The government of Israel; must stop doing what’s it thinks is politically correct and perform the right action to defend our people with zero tolerance, to eradicate terror and expel the Arabs. There are no innocents. The silent Arab majority is complicit by not objecting to terror and violence. The nations of the world throughout history stood idle while Jews were persecuted and killed. The Arabs terrorized and expelled over a million Jewish families and confiscated all their assets including, personal property, businesses, homes and over 120,000 sq. km. of Jewish owned Real Estate property for over 2,600 years.
ReplyDeleteWhen is the Israeli government stopping in deluding itself that the Arab/Palestinians want peace? (How many more terrorists’ entities like Gaza is Israel willing to tolerate and condone, which puts Israel’s population in mortal danger). It is time to face reality and stop wasting time on a façade in the illusion of peace. The Arabs behavior and actions speak volumes, that they do not want peace. When you teach your children to commit terror and violence, honor terrorists and suicide bombers, these are demonic and destructive people look around the world and the terror and violence they are causing; there is no one to talk to.
Once the Israeli government decides to face reality that there is no second Arab/Palestinian state and that the Arabs do not seek peace, only Israel’s demise. Then you must proceed with a new approach and take care of the people in Israel without appeasing or giving concessions to the Arabs or the world at large. When you defend your citizens at all costs, eventually the world might respect you. Past response and actions by the Arabs was and is detrimental to Israel’s and its people.
YJ Draiman
It is time for Israel to take what belongs to the Jewish people, everything west of the Jordan River, including Gaza with no equivocation and ignore the objection by the world at large. Israel’s foremost duty and responsibility is to protect its people at all cost. Ultimately the world at large respects a government that defends its people no matter what the criticism. It is about time for Israel to take off the gloves and address the terror and violence situation with all the resources and zero tolerance. The World at large throughout history has stood idle and or was complicit when Jews were terrorized, persecuted and murdered.
Many Jewish assets throughout the world for over 20 centuries have been confiscated and or retained by the locals, without any compensation to the Jewish people.
P.S. Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can not be treated just where it is visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed leaving no traces.
Here is some information that you need to know about the Arab/Palestinians.
ReplyDeleteThere never has been, there is not now and there never will be a country called Arab “Palestine” in The Land of Israel.
The Arab/Palestinians/Muslims squatting on Jewish land in and around Israel are overwhelmingly either descendants of invaders, illegal immigrants or trespassers, as British archives admits that hundreds of thousands of Arabs came to Israel during the Mandate for Palestine and that The British gave them Jewish land to pacify then, but it only made it worse, just like today.
The term “Arab/Palestinian” was popularized after the Six Day War in ’67 in an attempt to delegitimize Israel.
There are already 21 Arab/Muslim dominated countries which is spread out over five millions square miles of territory (over 12 million sq. km.), including most of Jordan which was part of the Jewish allocated land under international law and treaties and the partial implementation by the League of Nations in 1922. It also stated that the Jewish people are to set up their own government and none other. The Arabs also terrorized and expelled over a million Jewish families and their children from their countries and confiscated all their assets including, personal valuables, businesses, homes and over 46,332 sq. mi. of Jewish owned land for over 2,700 years. Thousands of Jewish people, men women and children died while the Arabs forced expulsion and leaving the Arab countries, most of these million expelled Jewish families from Arab countries now reside in Israel.
The Arab/Muslims are not interested in creating a 22nd Arab controlled country.
Their only desire is to annihilate the one and only Jewish state. The Muslim Quran states:
“And We said thereafter to the Children of Israel “Dwell securely in the land (of … (Holy Quran 17:104).
(Surah Al-Ma’ida, verse 21), and the other (Surah Al-Shara’a, verse 59) says that the land was bequeathed to the Jews.
Under International Law and Treaties – An Arab/Palestinian State cannot be established in Israel on Jewish land allocated to the Jewish people under the San Remo agreement of 1920 and the 1919 Faisal Weizmann Agreement, adopted and ratified and implemented by the League of Nations and signed by 51 member states. There was also the 1919 Faisal Weizmann Agreement, which concede that Palestine is for the Jewish people.
Jordan is the Arab Palestinian State – situated on the land originally allocated to the Jewish people under international law and treaties.
The British violated the international law and the treaties and gave it to the Arabs as the new Arab Palestinian State of Jordan on allocated Jewish historical land. Furthermore, Napoleon in 1799 notified the Jewish community in Palestine aka The Land of Israel that his intent is to reconstitute The Land of Israel to the Jewish people.
http://www.napoleon-series.org/ins/weider/c_jews.html
YJ Draiman
Israel and the settlements are legal under international treaties – rev.1
ReplyDeleteThe just and honest society rightfully argues that the world’s uproar against settlements is illegitimate, and that settlements are perfectly legal under international law. International Treaties after WWI specifically set the terms and allocations of the territories relinquished by the Ottoman Empire over 12 million sq. km. was allocated to the Arabs and Palestine as a whole about 120,000 sq. km. was allocated to the Jewish people.
The international treaties after WWI assigned and divided the territories allocating the various lands Mandated to the Arab population and the Mandate for Palestine which incorporated the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the Jewish people as international law, with exclusive political rights and the rights to settle in all the Mandate for Palestine aka The Land of Israel. Neither the League of Nation nor its replacement the U.N. can legally modify those international treaties and the terms are set in perpetuity.
Yair Shamir, the former Israeli minister of agriculture and son of the late Prime Minister Yitzchak Shamir. Stated "The Settlements are legal under international law"
In the world at large there has always been an intense bias toward Israel when it comes to applying the standards of international law, this does not, however, change the fact that Israel’s settlement enterprise is, and has always been, absolutely legal under international law, moral and historical proof.
Shamir’s arguments to the issue are legal interpretations of the articles of international law, and confirm the very spirit of that law and more.
As an additional principle to this question, it must be understand that Judea and Samaria aka the West Bank is under a legal regime of non-belligerent occupation. Non- belligerent Occupation is a specific category under the international laws of war that comes into effect when a state captures territory from another state during the defensive course of war.
On the first day that Israel came into possession of the West Bank aka Judea and Samaria and Gaza Strip from Jordan and Egypt, respectively, the IDF declared its authority over the territories, and that the international law of non-belligerent occupation would be the law of the land in those territories. Much to Israel’s credit, it has been the only state since the end of World War II to have formally applied the international law of liberation and occupation in a territory it has liberated and conquered through a defensive war. Non-belligerent occupation law in the territories is still enforced to this day, 48 years after it was established.
ReplyDeleteIt is in regard to the Judea and Samaria aka West Bank’s legal status that we get to the first of Shamir’s major interpretations of international law. Shamir argues that because Jordan illegally occupied and annexed the West Bank aka Judea and Samaria during the Israeli War of Independence, it did not have legal sovereignty over the land. Thus, there is no lawful sovereign that Israel can return the land to, accept to itself as adopted under international treaties and therefore Israel’s liberation and occupation must be considered sui generis, and not a normal military occupation to which the main pillars of international occupation law, the Hague Regulations of 1907, and the 4th Geneva Convention, are applicable. I must add that the various international treaties instituted after WWI stated that Palestine is allocated to the Jewish people and therefore Israel has liberated and occupied its own land. The U.N. or its predecessor cannot modify international treaties.
It is indeed true that the Hague Regulations as a legal document is primarily concerned with protecting the sovereign titles of territory under occupation which does not apply here, since Israel is occupying its own liberated territory. But this is the case with the 4th Geneva Convention, of which Israel is a signatory. Established in 1949, in response to the horrific atrocities committed against civilians during World War II, the primary focus of that convention is to protect the human rights of civilians who find themselves under occupation, not with the legal titles of sovereigns. In these instances Israel is not an occupier, it is only occupying its own liberated territory assigned under international treaties.
As Yoram Dinstein, former rector of Law at Tel Aviv University and world authority on the international laws of war, notes, any confusion about whether the 4th Geneva Convention is not applicable in the West Bank aka Judea and Samaria is cleared up by Article 4 of the Convention (Dinstein 2009), which states: Persons protected by the Convention are those of a legitimate nation who, at a given moment and in any manner whatsoever, find themselves, in case of a conflict or occupation, in the hands of a Party to the conflict or Occupying Power of which they are not nationals. (Geneva Convention IV). Most of the Arab-Palestinians in Judea and Samaria aka West Bank holds a Jordanian passport and are considered Jordanians. Jordan King Hussein stated "Jordan is Palestine and Palestine is Jordan". This does not apply here to Israel, since Israel is a liberator of its own territory guaranteed under international treaties instituted after WWI which terms are enforced today and the future.
By the fact that Israel liberated and conquered a territory that was inhabited by civilians who are not Israeli citizens (i.e. Arab Palestinians in the West Bank and holding Jordanian passports), this makes the Fourth Geneva Convention not applicable, and de jure, makes Israel’s control of the West Bank aka Judea and Samaria a liberated territory under international treaties with Israel's military control.
Israeli jurist Theodor Meron also concludes that “the application of the [4th Geneva] Convention should not be interpreted as the recognition of the status of Jordan in the West Bank. It must be remembered that, as a humanitarian convention par excellence, the Fourth Geneva Convention is concerned primarily with people, rather than territory; with human rights, rather than with legal questions pertaining to territorial status” (Meron 1979: 109). But again, since Judea and Samaria aka West Bank is Israel's territory under international treaties, it is not applicable here.
ReplyDeleteFurthermore, in how many cases of war and occupation are the sovereign rights to a particular land not disputed? Is Israel’s situation really that unique? It would appear to be a very narrow and ineffective interpretation of international law if the rights afforded to civilians under the 4th Geneva Convention are disregarded in every case when it cannot be determined which sovereign has legal ownership to the land under occupation. In this instance since Israel is only the liberator of its own territory under international treaties, there is no question that the rule do not apply.
If the Fourth Geneva Convention is not applicable in the West Bank aka Judea and Samaria, there is no question that Israeli settlements do not have to conform to Article 49(6) of the convention: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” Since Israel is a liberator of its own territory, it is not an occupier. Additionally when your read the terms of the Palestine Mandate under international law; it clearly states that the Jewish people have the right to settle anywhere in the Palestine Mandate. Anyone who obstructs those rights is violating the law and international treaties.
Shamir argues that this law only prevents the occupying power from forcing its own citizens into the territories it has conquered, i.e. in reaction to when Germany deported its Jewish citizens to the death camps in Poland and elsewhere, and not in cases of citizens voluntarily moving to the its own liberated occupied territory. Both Shamir’s interpretation of the wording of the law and the background of its formulation are completely valid under international treaties guarantying Jewish rights to settle anywhere in the Palestine Mandate.
First, such an interpretation implies that Article 49(6) is intended to protect the citizens of the occupying power, in this case Israeli citizens who are liberators of their own territory guaranteed by international treaties which is not an occupying power. However, the sole purpose of the 4th Geneva Convention is to protect the civilians living under occupation, not the citizens of the occupying power, who are not afforded any protection by the Convention. Since Israel is not an occupier under international treaty, but a liberator of its own territory, these do not apply to Israel.
Second, the term “transfer” does not imply forced, as evidenced by another article in the Convention, Article 49(1), which forbids the deportation of civilians from the occupied territories, and uses the phrase “forcible transfer,” not simply the term “transfer,” as Article 49(6) does. Since it is Israel's territory under international treaties. Israel has the right to relocate people in order to ensure safety and security and provide a buffer to prevent and or reduce hostility and conflict.
Further, to quote Dinstein, the settler’s “voluntary cooperation in the transfer does not diminish from its character, pursuant to the sixth paragraph of Article 49, as long as the Occupying Power stands behind the project.” Since Israel is only the liberator of its own territory under international treaty, these do not apply to Israel.
ReplyDeleteArticle 49(6) is always applicable as long as the occupying power is facilitating the transfer of its own citizens, whether forced or not. What Article 49 (6) aimed to prevent was not situations such as those in which Nazi Germany was deporting its Jewish citizens to the death camps, but instead Nazi Germany’s intention to transfer its ethnic German citizens into the Eastern European territories it conquered as part of its Lebensraum policy to alter the demographics of those territories. In this case, Israel is only a liberator of its own territory guaranteed by international treaties and therefore, it is not applicable to Israel.
This is not to compare in any way Nazi Germany with Israel’s settlement policy, but instead to illustrate how the voluntary transfer of citizens of the occupying power could be used to violate the human rights of the occupied, and thus was prohibited under Article 49(6). In this case, Israel is only a liberator of its own territory guaranteed by international treaties and therefore, this it is not applicable to Israel.
Furthermore, if one concedes that Israel’s rule over the territories is an occupation, then the settlement project is violating the most fundamental principle of international occupation law: that the occupying power may not unilaterally annex any territory it conquers. In this case, Israel is only a liberator of its own territory guaranteed by international treaties and therefore, it is not applicable to Israel and annexation is not required for you own territory.
When Israel declared its sovereignty and independence in 1948, there was no official annexation of the land within the armistice line once the Arabs were defeated and the war was over. You do not have to annex your own territory.
The Arab nations surrounding Israel gathered, the arms, the men had all been brought together to attack and destroy Israel, and the State of Israel was thus threatened with collective assault was itself the last sanctuary of a people which had seen six million of its sons exterminated by a more powerful Nazi dictator two decades before and the million Jewish families expelled from Arab lands of which the majority settled in Israel.
The world turned a blind eye when Jews were persecuted
Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria are Jewish territory - No annexation is required.
ReplyDeleteIf anything it may need to be re-incorporated or re-patriated and Israel’s sovereignty applied.
Let me pose an interesting scenario. If you had a country and it was conquered by various foreign powers over a period of time. After many years you have taken back you country and land in various defensive wars. Do you have to officially annex those territories? It was always your territory and by retaking control and possession of your territory it is again your original property and there is no need to annex it.
Jewish roots and rights to all the land of Greater Israel are stronger than ever!
“If I am turned out of hearth and home and remain outside one night, I am legally entitled to return the following day. If I suffer for ten, twenty, five thousand or fifty thousand nights, does my right of return stand in inverse relationship to the length of my exile? Quite the contrary; my right to return and recover my freedom becomes stronger in direct proportion to what I have endured, not by virtue of some abstract arithmetic, but because of the nights spent in exile, and because I want my children, to be spared a similar experience.”
YJ Draiman
P.S. It is abundantly clear to most observers that the rebuilt Jewish communities destroyed by the Arabs in 1948 and the Jewish settlements built in the liberated territories are legally established under international treaties and are permanent parts of the State of Israel.
“A corollary of the inalienable right of the Jewish people to its Ancestral Historical Land is the right to live in any part of Eretz Yisrael, including Judea and Samaria which are an integral part of Eretz Yisrael. Jews are not foreigners anywhere in the Land of Israel." Anyone who asserts that it is illegal for a Jew to live in Judea and Samaria just because he is a Jew, is in fact advocating a concept that is disturbingly reminiscent of the ‘Judenrein’ policies of Nazi Germany banning Jews from certain spheres of life for no other reason than that they were Jews. The Jewish communities and villages in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza district are there as of right and are there to stay. Many of those communities were destroyed by the Arabs in 1948 after the massacred the Jews.
ReplyDelete“The right of Jews to settle in the Land of Israel was implemented at the 1920 San Remo Conference and the 1919 King Faisal Weizmann agreement; also implemented and recognized in the League of Nations ‘Mandate for Palestine’ which stressed ‘the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and … the grounds for reconstituting’ – I repeat, reconstituting ‘their national home in that ancestral country.’'
“The Mandatory Power in Palestine aka Israel was also entrusted with the duty to encourage ‘close settlement by Jews on the land, including state lands and waste lands not required for public purposes.'”
YJ Draiman
Supreme Muslim Council: Temple Mount is Jewish
ReplyDeleteThe widely-disseminated Arab claim that the Temple Mount isn't Jewish has been debunked - by the Supreme Muslim Council (Waqf), in a 1925 pamphlet - Draiman
Supreme Muslim Council: Temple Mount is Jewish - The widely-disseminated Arab claim that the Temple Mount isn't Jewish has been debunked - by the Supreme Muslim Council (Waqf), in a 1925 pamphlet - Draiman
Supreme Muslim Council: Temple Mount is Jewish
The widely-disseminated Arab claim that the Temple Mount isn't Jewish has been debunked - by the Supreme Muslim Council (Waqf), in a 1925 pamphlet.
Click here for the 1925 Temple Mount Guide.
http://www.raptureforums.com/IsraelMiddleEast/guide.pdf
https://www.templeinstitute.org/wakf-1925-guidebook.htm
One of the most disturbing end times propaganda being promoted today is the absurd notion that the Jews never had a presence on the famous Temple Mount area in Jerusalem. Anyone who is knowledgeable about history and aware of the recent archaeological discoveries on the Temple Mount area over the years knows that the propaganda being perpetuated by the Islamics, United Nations, and other ungodly organizations is simply a political ploy to deny the Jews their historical capital of Jerusalem and the sacred Temple Mount area. The Temple Mount area is the holiest place in Judaism and the remnants of the Second Temple area visible in the form of the "Wailing Wall" where religious Jews flock from around the world in order to pray near the site of the First and Second Temples. Some of the outstanding quotes from the official Temple Mount Guide are as follows:
“The site is one of the oldest in the world. Its sanctity dates from the earliest times. Its identity with the site of Solomon’s Temple is beyond dispute. This, too, is the spot, according to universal belief, on which David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings” (2 Samuel 24:25).
Rather than the rules allowing non-Muslims to ascend the Mount being from 2006, as was cited in Wikipedia, the rules have remain unchanged since 1924, as can be seen in an online copy of “A Brief Guide to Al-Haram Al-Sharif,” published by the Supreme Moslem Council in Jerusalem, in 1924, with this copy from 1925.
A link to the document can be found here
Temple Mount Institute
Click here for the 1925 Temple Mount Guide.
http://www.raptureforums.com/IsraelMiddleEast/guide.pdf
https://www.templeinstitute.org/wakf-1925-guidebook.htm
The widely-disseminated Arab Muslim position that the Temple Mount is not Jewish has been debunked - by the Supreme Muslim Council (Waqf) of Jerusalem, in a Temple Mount guide published in 1925.
Wakf guidebook, 1925, cover
The Temple Institute
Wakf guidebook, 1925, cover
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Guidebook Puts the Lie to Current Arab Campaign In 1997, the chief Muslim cleric of the Palestinian Authority, Mufti Ikrama Sabri, stated, "The claim of the Jews to the right over [Jerusalem] is false, and we recognize nothing but an entirely Islamic Jerusalem under Islamic supervision..."
Thus began a campaign to convince the world that the millennia-old natural association between Jerusalem and Jews was untrue. As Islamic Movement chief Raed Salah stated in 2006, "We remind, for the 1,000th time, that the entire Al-Aqsa mosque [on the Temple Mount], including all of its area and alleys above the ground and under it, is exclusive and absolute Muslim property, and no one else has any rights to even one grain of earth in it."
However, it is now known that this "absolute" Muslim claim is actually not as absolute as claimed. In fact, back in 1925, the Supreme Muslim Council - also known as the Waqf, which has overseen Temple Mount activities on behalf of the Muslim religion for hundreds of years - boasted proudly that the site was none other than that of Solomon's Temple.
The Jerusalem-based Temple Institute (http://www.templeinstitute.org) reports that it has acquired a copy of the official 1925 Supreme Muslim Council Guide Book to Al-Haram Al-Sharif (the Muslim name for the Temple Mount). On page 4, the Waqf states, "Its identity with the site of Solomon's Temple is beyond dispute. This, too, is the spot, according to universal belief, on which 'David built there an altar unto the L-rd...', citing the source in 2 Samuel XXIV,25.
Wakf guidebook, 1925, excerpt close-up
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In addition, on page 16, the pamphlet makes reference to the underground area in the south-east corner of the Mount, which is refers to as Solomon's Stables. "Little is known for certain of the history of the chamber itself," the guide reads. "It dates probably as far back as the construction of Solomon's Temple. According to Josephus, it was in existence and was used as a place of refuge by the Jews at the time of the conquest of Jerusalem by Titus in the year 70 A.D."
The Temple Mount in Jerusalem was in fact the site of the two Jewish Holy Temples which stood for nearly 1,000 years (see below).
Wakf guidebook, 1925, excerpt
The Temple Institute
“We are tired of hearing anything from anyone associated with the U.N.
ReplyDeleteThe U.N. is a parasitic and criminal enterprise dominated by our mortal enemies. The U.N. cannot create states, it can only recommend and so can other nations only recommend (U.N. resolutions are non-binding with no legal standing) and not create a state that never existed before in history.” Israel was legally reconstituted in its historical land and other Arab State were legally assigned their territory of over 12 million sq. km. with a wealth of oil reserves under International treaties and laws agreed to by the Supreme Allied powers after WWI when and after the Ottoman Empire ceded its occupied ownership to the Supreme Allied powers.
YJ Draiman
There is nothing to negotiate or talk about. Any Arab-Palestinian that does not want to live under Israel's government and obey the laws must transfer to Jordan or to the homes and over 46,332 sq, miles, the land the Arab countries confiscated from the million persecuted and expelled Jewish families who were resettled in The Land of Israel. Negotiations are over, there is nothing to negotiate. The land of Israel is Jewish land and we are forbidden by Jewish law to cede our land to others. The Arabs who live in Israel West of The Jordan River must comply and adhere to the laws of Israel or leave the country permanently. The Arabs already have the new Arab-Palestinian state of Jordan which is on Jewish land taken from the Jews in violation of Agreements.
ReplyDeleteJudea and Samaria is Jewish territory - No annexation is required for Greater Israel territory..
Let me pose an interesting scenario. If you had a country and it was conquered by foreign powers over a period of time. After many years you have taken back you country and land in various defensive wars. Do you have to officially annex those territories? It was always your territory and by retaking control and possession of your territory it is again your original property and there is no need to annex it. The title to your property is valid today as it was many years before.
Annexation only applies when you are taking over territory that was never yours to begin with, just like some European countries annexed territories of other countries.
YJ Draiman
P.S.
Jewish roots and rights to all the land of Greater Israel are stronger than ever!
“If I am turned out of hearth and home and remain outside one night, I am legally entitled to return the following day. If I suffer for ten, twenty, five thousand or fifty thousand nights, does my right of return stand in inverse relationship to the length of my exile? Quite the contrary; my right to return and recover my freedom becomes stronger in direct proportion to what I have endured, not by virtue of some abstract arithmetic, but because of the nights spent in exile, and because I want my children, to be spared a similar experience.”
YJ Draiman
**Authoritative experts who have declared Israel’s presence in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan to be legal, include inter alia
ReplyDelete• Judge Schwebel, a former President of the ICJ, who pronounced “As between Israel, acting defensively in 1948 and 1967, on the one hand, and her Arab neighbors, acting aggressively, in 1948 and 1967, on the other, Israel has the better title in the territory of what was Palestine, including the whole of Jerusalem.” (See Appendix A andhttp://www.2nd-thoughts.org/id248.html )
• Professor Julius Stone, one of the twentieth century’s leading authorities on the Law of Nations. See http://www.2nd-thoughts.org/id160.html
• Eugene W. Rostow, US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs between 1966 and 1969 who played a leading role in producing the famous Resolution 242.
See http://www.2nd-thoughts.org/id45.html
• Jacques Gauthier, a non-Jewish Canadian lawyer who spent 20 years researching the legal status of Jerusalem leading to the conclusion on purely legal grounds, ignoring religious claims that Jerusalem belongs to the Jews, by international law. Seehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28qwcVPNy3E
and http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125049…
• William M. Brinton, who appealed against a US district court’s withholding of State Department documents concerning US policy on issues involving Israel and the West Bank, the Golan Heights, and the Gaza Strip. He showed that none of these areas fall within the definition of “occupied territories” and that any claim that the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, or both, is an Arab Palestinian homeland to which the Arab/Palestinians have a ‘legitimate right’ lacks substance and does not survive legal analysis. According to Mr. Brinton no state, other than Israel, can show a better title to the West Bank.
• Sir Elihu Lauterpacht CBE QC., the British specialist in international law, who concludes inter alia that sovereignty over Jerusalem already vested in Israel when the 1947 partition proposals were rejected and aborted by Arab armed aggression.
• Simon H. Rifkind, Judge of the United States District Court, New York who wrote an in depth analysis “The basic equities of the Palestine problem” (Ayer Publishing, 1977) that was signed by Jerome N. Frank, Judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals Second Circuit; Stanley H. Fuld, Judge of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York; Abrahan Tulin, member of the New York Bar; Milton Handler, Professor of law, Columbia University; Murray L. Gurfein, member of the New York Bar; Abe Fortas, former Undersecretary of Interior of the United States and Lawrence R. Eno, member of the New York Bar. They jointly stated that justice and equity are on the side of the Jews in this document that they described as set out in the form of a lawyer’s brief.
Jerusalem is the heart and soul of the Jewish people and the capital of Israel for eternity.”
ReplyDeleteFACT IS: Ever since the Jews entered the land of Israel in about 1300 BCE and King David made Jerusalem the capital of Israel more than 3,000 years ago; then King Solomon built the Jewish Temple, the city has played a central role in Jewish existence. The Western Wall in the Old City is the object of Jewish veneration and the focus of Jewish prayer. Three times a day and in daily blessings, for thousands of years, Jews have prayed “To Jerusalem, thy city, shall we return with joy,” and have repeated the Psalmist’s oath: “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.” Jerusalem “has known only two periods of true greatness, and these have been separated by 2,000 years. Greatness has only happened under Jewish rule,” a famous writer wrote in Jerusalem. “This is so because the Jews have loved her the most, and have remained constant in that love and devotion throughout the centuries of their dispersion. . . . It is the longest, deepest spiritual love affair in history.” “It is for three thousand years, Jerusalem has been the center of Jewish hope and longing. No other city has played such a dominant role in the history, culture, religion and consciousness of a people as has Jerusalem in the life of Jewry and Judaism. Throughout centuries of exile, Jerusalem remained alive in the hearts of Jews everywhere as the focal point of Jewish history, the symbol of ancient glory, spiritual fulfillment and modern renewal. The Jews for the past 2,000 years have celebrated holidays and observed fast days in memory of Jerusalem, the hope and aspiration to return to Jerusalem and rebuilt the Jewish Temple. At Jewish wedding ceremonies a dish is broken in memory of Jerusalem. This heart and soul of the Jewish people engenders the thought that if you want one simple word to symbolize all of Jewish history, that word would be ‘Jerusalem.’ ” “The Jewish people without Jerusalem; is like a human body without a soul”.
YJ Draiman
It is harder to make peace than war!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in Israel supervising the building of the hotel across from Jerusalem’s Jaffa gate in 1995. The Oslo agreement was implemented. There was euphoria in the air. Many companies and individuals were talking and ready to invest billions of dollars. I myself contacted some investors to invest in building an automobile manufacturing plant which would create jobs and have a locally manufactured automobile at a much more reasonable price. All that faded as soon as the suicide bombers started blowing up busses on Jaffa road in Jerusalem. Talking peace, signing peace agreements and living in peace and coexistence are two different things. There are external powers that do not want peace in Israel. That has been going on since the end of WWI. If you know, or anybody knows a way how to overcome it and bring peace and coexistence in Israel, I would love to promote it. It is unfortunate, that you have the Arab leadership for over the past 3 generations promoting terror and violence and educating their children and the masses to commit terror and violence, while celebrating terror attacks and financing terrorists. You are banging your head against the wall. It has to start with a change in the mindset and the education of the children and the masses to live in peace.
The Arabs have to prove that they truly want peace. Israel will need to see years of non-violence and peaceful coexistence, prior to resuming peace talks. Furthermore, the world at large must stay out of it, let the Israelis and Arabs work it out without external involvement. Then you night have a chance for coexistence.
YJ Draiman
Jewish roots and rights to all the land of Greater Israel are stronger than ever!
“If I am turned out of hearth and home and remain outside one night, I am legally entitled to return the following day. If I suffer for ten, twenty, five thousand or fifty thousand nights, does my right of return stand in inverse relationship to the length of my exile? Quite the contrary; my right to return and recover my freedom becomes stronger in direct proportion to what I have endured, not by virtue of some abstract arithmetic, but because of the nights spent in exile, and because I want my children, to be spared a similar experience.”
YJ Draiman
Who Stole the Land of Israel?
ReplyDeleteWhy do the anti-Zionists feel that a thousand-year old claim by Arabs who were never ruled by Arab Palestinians has legitimacy, while over a 1,900-year claim by Jews to the land should be rejected as absurd? The Arabs received over 12 million sq. km. after WWI with a wealth of oil reserves.
So let us see if we have this straight. The anti-Zionists claim that the Jews have no right to the land of Israel because before Israel was re-claimed in 1948, Israel re-assumed its sovereignty on May 15, 1948, but it was reconstituted in 1920 under international law and treaties (including the 1919 Faisal Weizmann Agreement), with the British as trustee for the Jews to promote Jewish immigration, until the Jews comprise a majority. It had been almost 1,900 years since the last time that the Jewish people exercised sovereignty over the Land of Israel. And the anti-Zionists claim that it is absurd to argue that anyone still has rights to land that was last governed with sovereignty 1,900 years ago. They forget to mention that Jews were always residing in Israel and in varying population census.
And on what basis do they argue that the Arabs have some legitimate claim to these same lands? On the basis of the claim that the various Arab-Muslims rulers last exercised sovereignty as an occupier over that land 1,000 years ago. They always considered The Land of Israel as occupied territory and abused its land and resources, to the extent that it became desolate, since it was only occupied territory: until the Jewish people came back to their own historical land and revitalized the land to be green and productive.
Are you all with me? 1,900 year-old-claims by the Jews are inadmissible. Thousand-year-old of numerous rulers, who milked the country, that the Arab-Muslim claims trump them and are indisputable. Is it not a fantasy and delusion? There was also a period of Time where the Christians occupied The Land of Israel and other nations.
Now let us emphasize that even the thousand-year-old Arab claim is not the same thing as a claim on behalf of Arab/Palestinian [sic] Arabs. After all, the last time that Arab/Palestinians held sovereignty or control over the lands of “Palestine” aka The Land of Israel was … never. There has never been an Arab Palestinian state in Palestine aka The Land of Israel. “Ever”.
It is true that various Arab rulers once exercised its occupation and control over parts or all of historic Palestine – Israel and so did many other nations. There were small Nomadic kingdoms in the south of “Palestine” aka The Land of Israel already in late Biblical days, and they were important military and political allies of the Jews, who exercised sovereignty for over 1,000 years back then in the Land of Israel, which extended all the way to Mesopotamia. After the rise of Islam, historic “Palestine” aka The Land of Israel was for a time indeed an occupied part of a larger numerous ruling Arab-Muslim kingdoms or caliphate. But that ended in 1071 CE, when Palestine aka The Land of Israel came under the rule of the Seljuk Turks and shortly afterwards by the Crusaders for about 200 years.
That was the last time Palestine aka The Land of Israel had an Arab-Muslim occupier and ruler. After that, it was always occupied and ruled by a long series of Ottomans, Mamluks, other Turks, Crusaders, British, and — briefly — French. And in any case, why does the fact that Palestine aka The Land of Israel once was occupied by a larger Arab-Muslim empire make it any more “Arab” than the fact that it also was once part of larger Roman, Greek, Persian, Turkish, or British empires? Now it is true that historic Palestine aka The Land of Israel probably once had a population majority who were Arab Muslims and Christians etc., but today it has a population majority who are Jews.
So if population majorities are what determine legitimacy of sovereignty, Israel is at least as legitimate as any other country.
ReplyDeleteSo why exactly do the anti-Zionists claim that a thousand-year old claim by various Arab-Muslims who were never ruled or occupied by Arab-Palestinians has any legitimacy, while a 1,900-year legitimate claim by Jews to its own historical ancestral land should be rejected as absurd, even though the Supreme Allied Powers after WWI had signed a treaty that guaranteed Palestine as the land for the Jewish National Home (The British in violation of international law and treaties reallocated over 77% of Jewish land east of the Jordan River to the new Arab state of Transjordan, which received its independence in 1946). These terms were confirmed by the 1920 treaty of Sevres and Lausanne, including the 1919 Faisal Weitzman Agreement. (The Supreme Allied Powers also allocated over 6 million square miles to the Arabs with a wealth of oil reserves). These treaties and its implementations were incorporated by the 52 members of the League of Nations, which set-up the Mandate for Palestine to reconstitute the Jewish sovereignty in the land of Israel. In 1948 immediately after the British relinquished its responsibility, abandoned its obligation and duty, to implement the terms of the Mandate for Palestine to reconstitute the Jewish state. The United Nations recognized that the terms of the treaty of Jewish majority has been reached and granted Israel sovereignty in 1947?
The anti-Zionists say it is because the thousand-year-old Arab deceptive claim is more recent than the older legitimate Jewish claim. But if national claims to lands become more legitimate when they are more recent, then surely the most legitimate of all is that of the remaining indigenous Jews of Israel, who have absolute right to the lands of Israel, also because it is the most recent!
The other claim by the anti-Zionists is that Jews have no rights to the lands of Israel (named Palestine by the Romans) because they moved there from some other places. Now never mind that there was actually always a Jewish habitation living in the lands of Israel even when it was under the sovereignty of Romans, Greeks, Byzantines, Arabs, Crusaders, Mamluks, Turks, French or British.
Does the fact that Jews moved to the land of Israel from other places disqualify them from exercising sovereignty there? The claim would be absurd enough even if we were to ignore that fact; that most “Arab Palestinians” also moved illegally to Palestine from neighboring countries, starting in the late nineteenth century. But more generally, does the fact that peoples that move from one locality to another deprive it of its claims to its legitimate sovereignty in its new abode? Does this fact necessitate the conclusion that they need to pack up and leave, as the anti-Zionists insist?
ReplyDeleteIf it does, then it goes without saying that the Americans and Canadians must lead the way and show the Israelis the light, by returning all lands that they seized from the Indians and the Mexicans to their original owners and going back to whence they came. For that matter, the Mexicans of Spanish ancestry also need to leave. The Anglo-Saxons, meaning the English, will be invited to turn the British Isles over to their rightful original Celtic and Druid owners, while they return to their own ancestral Saxon homeland in northern Germany and Denmark. The Danes of course will be asked to move aside, in fact to move back to their Norwegian and Swedish homelands, to make room for the returning Anglo-Saxons.
But that is just a beginning. The Spanish will be called upon to leave the Iberian Peninsula that they wrongfully occupy, and return it to the Celt Iberians. (The Muslims occupied Spain for about 700 years, through the late 1400’s, how come they are not demanding Spain as their land). Similarly the Portuguese occupiers will leave their lands and return them to the Lusitanian’s. The Magyars will go back where they came from and leave Hungary to its true owners. The Australians and New Zealanders obviously will have to end their occupations of lands that do not belong to them. The Thais will leave Thailand. The Bulgarians will return to their Volga homeland and abandon occupied Bulgaria. Anyone speaking Spanish will be expected to end his or her forced occupation of Latin America. It goes without saying that the French will lose almost all their lands to their rightful owners. The Turks will go back to Mongolia and leave Anatolia altogether, returning it to the Greeks. The Germans will go back to Got land. The Italians will return the boot to the Etruscans and Greeks.
Ah, but that leaves the Arabs. First, all of northern Africa, from Mauritania to Egypt and Sudan, will have to be immediately abandoned by the illegal Arab occupiers and squatters, and returned to their lawful original Berber, Punic, Greek, and Vandal owners. Occupied Syria and Lebanon must be released at once from the cruel occupation of the Arab imperialist aggressors. Iraq must be returned to the Assyrians and Chaldeans. Southern Arabia must be returned to the Abyssinians. The Arabs may retain control of the central portion of the Arabian Peninsula as their homeland. But not the oil fields.
Oh, and the Arab-Palestinians infiltrators, usurpers and squatters will of course have to return the lands they are illegally and wrongfully occupying, turning them over to their legal and rightful owners, which would of course be the Jews, who are the only remaining indigenous people!
YJ Draiman
Israel stands in the way and is an obstacle to full Muslim domination of the Middle East. The West fears Islamic aggression (which has been going on since WW1), and is opting for appeasement. Propaganda is being used to try to convince people that Muslims in Israel, and in the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and Golan Heights, are being mistreated. Islamist forces have conducted maneuvers at the borders of Israel, and have continuously lobbed thousands of rockets and missiles into Israel’s population centers; they constructed tunnels to commit terror and violence in Israel. Islam constantly threatens Israel, often using language that proclaims a desire for the complete destruction of Israel. The Arab-Palestinians have spoken to the world, proclaiming parts of Israel to belong to them. While ignoring the issue that the Arab countries terrorized and expelled over a million Jewish families who lived in Arab lands for over 2600 years and due to the expulsion and the confiscation of all the assets including over 120,000 sq. km. of land, they are now settled in The Land of Israel.
ReplyDeletePeace in the Middle East is desired at any cost by the Western Appeasers, which harms Israel safety. The unrest is being blamed on Israel. Islam promises that the Arab-Palestinian claims are the last they will make in Israel. If land is traded for peace, they say, and then the unrest in the Middle East will ease, but not diminish, which is a delusion and not reality.
The Western Leaders, fearful that if the Muslims are not appeased the world could plunge into terrorism (which it has already and increasing daily), have decided they need to negotiate with the Arab-Palestinians, grant them the Statehood they suddenly desire, and grant them their demands for the purpose of a delusional and false peace.
As The West prepares for more appeasement and capitulation, and the forces of Jihadism are on the rise in Egypt, Syria, Turkey and Iran and extends to Pakistan, Afghanistan and former Russian states. Egypt's peace with Israel has been guaranteed by U.S. involvement, and land for peace. The treaty with Egypt was based on the proposition of the Sinai in 1982 for peace. The Islamists moving into position to gain power in Egypt places the treaty at risk. They have no intention of abiding by its provisions. But the overthrow of the Brotherhood restored some control in Egypt. The 1994 peace treaty with Jordan has improved some conditions, a full fledge economic relations with Jordan and Egypt is not in the cards at this time.
The concept of land for peace has failed, as it failed prior to WW2. Islamism does not care about land. Islamism only cares about the destruction of Israel, the destruction of non-Islamic societies, and ultimately the worldwide domination of Islam through a Muslim caliphate.
ReplyDeleteIsrael gives land because they want the Arabs to abide by peace agreements. Israel craves peace, but deep down knows that it is not possible, it is a hope only. Islam has made it loud and clear that land for peace is a one way street. Israeli land giveaways are permanent, but Islamic commitments to peace are revoked at any time. In the Islamic religion it is permitted to falsify and not tell the truth.
With the current presidential administration in the United States, and the liberal socialists in control of the biased U.N. and Europe, Israel stands alone. No one plans to stand up for Israel's right to exist, as history has proven, the Jewish people have ultimately been abandoned by the world nations. The Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist parties are working to take an absolute majority in Egypt and other Muslim countries, but The West has fallen for the propaganda that claims these parties are moderate and pragmatic. ISIS has proven that this approach is wrong and detrimental to peaceful coexistence.
The fact is, the rising Islamist control over the Muslim nations has no intention of respecting treaties, or Israel's right to exist. They are waiting for conflict, and then will blame it on Israel. Talks are doomed to failure. The Islamists want it that way or the highway.
Land for Peace fails. Liberalism fails. Only a strong and direct military posture with no-holds-barred with zero tolerance that stands up against the rising threat will succeed. . . but the appeasers refuse to learn from history, and like Neville Chamberlain with Germany, Barrack Obama and his fellow appeasers are positioning the world for a new world conflict that could turn the world to ashes.
The world at large must compare how Israel uplifted and resettled the expelled and forcefully dispossessed Million families of JEWISH REFUGEES FROM ARAB COUNTRIES who had all their assets confiscated, including businesses, homes and over 46,332 sq. mi. of Jewish owned land for over 2,500 years, the amount of land confiscated by the Arabs is more than 6 times the size of Israel valued in the trillions of dollars with 68 years of Arab manipulation, and a much lower number of Arab refugees. Mahmoud Abbas' aka Abu Mazen the convicted murderer, his stance on refugees makes a mockery of a two state solution, which will never happen, since it already exists in Jordan, which is the new Arab/Palestinian state on Jewish territory. It denies the rights of the million Jewish families refugees forcefully expelled from the Arab countries. It sidesteps Arab culpability for starting the wars that led to BOTH refugee issues. And it runs counter to the way every other population exchange has been resolved. They have to consider relocating to Jordan and or to the homes and lands the Arabs confiscated from the expelled Jewish people. The Arabs received over 12 million sq. km. of territory with a wealth of oil reserves after WWI, they have 21 States on over 12 million sq. km. with a wealth of oil reserves, where they must resettle the Arab refugees, and Israel has only one small one, all the territory west of the Jordan River, because the Arabs took away over three quarters of allocated Jewish territory east of the Jordan River for the new Arab-Palestinian State of Jordan and expelled all the Jews.
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A quote state wisely
"No country in the world exists today by virtue of its 'right'.
All countries exist today by virtue of their ability to defend themselves against those who seek their destruction."
A quote by Abba Eban
“Nobody does Israel any service by proclaiming its ‘right to exist.' [As a Jewish State] Israel’s right to exist, like that of the United States, Saudi Arabia and 152 other states, is axiomatic and unreserved. Israel’s legitimacy is not suspended in midair awaiting acknowledgement. . . .There is certainly no other state, big or small, young or old, that would consider mere recognition of its ‘right to exist’ a favor, or a negotiable concession.”
Abba Eban
Was there a concerted effort to divide and weaken the Middle East after World War I?
ReplyDeleteIf so, to what end?
Here are some breaking news: there was no Middle East to divide and weaken during WWI. There were no countries, no nations, no governments, no armies, no judicial systems and nothing else that resembles an array of countries.
There was one, big, Ottoman Empire that ruled the Middle East since the 1500's and all the countries making the Middle East today were provinces of the Ottoman Empire which were ruled and taxed by Ottoman commissioners located in Damascus, Baghdad, etc.
There was, however, a concreted effort to weak and erode the Ottoman Empire by the British and French even before WWI. The Ottomans knew it and tried to fight it. When WWI broke, the Ottomans were unprepared, economically and militarily, for a modern war and lost their centuries old Empire. The British and French re-designed the map of the Middle East and created new countries and so-called 'nations' without taking into account the religious and tribal conflicts in each new country (and I'm not talking about Palestine. This is one of the relatively small cases), as well as the tradition and the mentality of the people.
So as for the original question: no, there was no attempt to weaken the Middle East after WWI. There was something much worse: an attempt to build it on foundations that never really existed by people who were totally clueless about what they were doing. The house of cards they built held for a century under tyranny and fear; Now it all goes down in flames.
The San Remo Resolution of 1920 on Palestine combined the Balfour Declaration of 1917 as international treaty with Article 22 of the League Covenant. This meant that the general provisions of Article 22 applied to the Jewish people exclusively, who would set up their home and state in all of Palestine aka The Land of Israel. There was no intention whatsoever to apply Article 22 to the Arabs of the country, as was mistakenly concluded by the Palestine Royal Commission which relied on that article of the Covenant as the legal basis to illegally justify the partition of Palestine, apart from the other reasons it gave. The proof of the applicability of Article 22 to the Jewish people, including not only those in Palestine at the time, but those who were expected to arrive in large numbers in the future, is found in the Smuts Resolution, which became Article 22 of the Covenant. It specifically names Palestine as one of the countries to which this article would apply. There was no doubt that when Palestine was named in the context of Article 22, it was linked exclusively to the Jewish National Home, as set down in the 1917 Balfour Declaration, a fact everyone was aware of at the time, including the representatives of the Arab national movement, as evidenced by the agreement between Emir Feisal and Dr. Chaim Weizmann dated January 3, 1919 as well as an important letter sent by the Emir to future US Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter dated March 3, 1919. In that letter, Feisal characterized as “moderate and proper” the Zionist proposals presented by Nahum Sokolow and Weizmann to the Council of Ten at the Paris Peace Conference on February 27, 1919, which called for the development of all of Palestine into a Jewish commonwealth with extensive boundaries. The argument later made by Arab leaders that the 1917 Balfour Declaration and the Mandate for Palestine were incompatible with Article 22 of the Covenant is totally undermined by the fact that the Smuts Resolution – the precursor of Article 22 – specifically included Palestine within its legal framework.
ReplyDeleteThe San Remo Resolution of 1920 on Palestine became Article 95 of the Treaty of Sevres in 1920 which was intended to end the war with Turkey, but though this treaty was signed by all the Supreme Allied Powers including the U.S., was not ratified by the Turkish National Government of Kemal Ataturk, the Resolution retained its validity as an independent act of international law when it was inserted into the Preamble of the Mandate for Palestine and confirmed by 52 states. The San Remo Resolution of 1920 (and the Faisal Weizmann Agreement of January 1919) is the base document upon which the Mandate was constructed and to which it had to conform. It is therefore the pre-eminent foundation document of the revived State of Israel and the crowning achievement of pre-state Zionism. It has been accurately described as the Magna Carta of the Jewish people. It is the best proof that the whole country of Palestine aka The Land of Israel belong exclusively to the Jewish people under international law.
The Mandate for Palestine implemented both the 1917 Balfour Declaration and Article 22 of the League Covenant, i.e. implemented the San Remo Resolution of 1920 (and the Faisal Weizmann Agreement of January 1919). All four of these acts were building blocks in the legal structure that was created for the purpose of bringing about the re-establishment of an independent sovereign Jewish state. The Balfour Declaration of 1917 followed Napoleon 1799 intent to reconstitute The Jewish National Home in Palestine; in essence stated the principle or object of a Jewish state. The San Remo Resolution of 1920 gave it the stamp of international law. The Mandate furnished all the details and means for the realization of the sovereign Jewish state. As noted, Britain’s chief obligation as Mandatory, Trustee and Tutor was the creation of the appropriate political, administrative and economic conditions to secure the sovereign Jewish state. All 28 articles of the Mandate were directed to this objective, including those articles that did not specifically mention the Jewish National Home. The Mandate for Palestine created a right of return for the Jewish people to Palestine aka The Land of Israel and the right to establish settlements and communities on the land throughout the country of Palestine in order to recreate and reestablish the envisaged Jewish state.
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According to International law and treaties of post WWI, which allocated over 6 million square miles of territory to the Arabs and the 46,332 square miles of Palestine to the Jewish people, Jordan and Gaza is part of Israel, since they were part of Palestine. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the president of Egypt stated that he would give land in the Sinai with ocean front for the Arab Palestinians. Whether Jordan likes it or not over 70% of its population is Arabs who call themselves Arab-Palestinians.
ReplyDelete(The UN which has no authority to create or modify countries has violated the law and the Charter of the UN by allocating Jewish territory under international law and treaties to Jordan. The UN Partition of Israel which is only a recommendation was also a violation of the UN Charter, the U.N can recommend a non-binding resolution with no legal standing. Israel accepted, but the Arabs rejected the partition, that makes the UN partition recommendation of 1947 mute and meaningless.
Israel was reconstituted in 1920 by International law and treaties, including the 1919 Faisal Weizmann Agreement. Israel took over sovereign control on May 14, 1947 after the British abandoned their obligation and the Jewish people became a majority in the land).
People must remember that the Arab countries have terrorized, persecuted and expelled over a million Jewish families and confiscated all their assets, businesses, homes and including over 120,000 square km. of Jewish owned land valued in the trillions of dollars, and most of those expelled Jewish families were resettled in Greater Israel. The Arabs expelled the million Jewish families from their Arab countries (after living there for over 2,700 years, a thousand years before Islam was created), the million expelled Jewish families from Arab countries were resettled in Israel and now they want to expel them again from their own historical ancestral land.
Let the Arabs from Israel relocate to the Jewish homes and land confiscated by the Arab countries.
YJ Draiman
Islamic Destruction of Hindu Temples
ReplyDeleteFor those who don’t believe or do not know of the amount of destruction that took place in India at the hands of the Muslim invaders and Islamic rulers who established themselves in parts of India, we can review the Islamic chronicles of the deeds of these rulers of the day, as written by the Muslim contemporary writers or historians. So what follows is a review of some of the books and their authors who recorded the histories of the Islamic rulers, and quotes from some of the descriptions within them about the cities they attacked and the temples they destroyed. It really shows how demoniac and cruel these rulers were.
The evidence of destruction of thousands of Hindu temples can be primarily found from two different sources:
1. Literary Evidence from the work of renowned Islamic historians
2. Epigraphic Evidence from the inscriptions on numerous Mosques all over India.
This article deals with only the literary evidence.
Hundreds of Muslim historians have glorified the deeds of their Muslim heroes all over India. This by no means is an exhaustive list! To learn more about this, please read both volumes of, Hindu Temples: What Happened To Them? by Sita RamGoel.
There is elaborate literary evidence from the Islamic sources which glorify the crimes committed by the Muslims in India. Crimes such as the desecration of the Hindu idols, looting of the temples, killing devotees and raping have been well documented by the Muslim historians themselves. They have done so because according to them these Muslim rulers by doing such deeds were following the tenets of Islam and Sunnah of the prophet Mohammed. The literary evidence stated below is in chronological order with reference to the time at which a particular work was written.
1. Name Of The Book: Hindustan Islami Ahad Mein (India under Islamic Rule)
Name Of The Historian: Maulana Abdul Hai.
About The Author: He is a highly respected scholar and taken as an authority on Islamic history. Because of his scholarship and his services to Islam, Maulana Abdul Hai was appointed as the Rector of the Darul Nadwa Ullum Nadwatal-Ulama. He continued in that post till his death in February 1923.
The following section is taken from the chapter Hindustan ki Masjidein (The mosques of India) of the above mentioned book. Here we can see a brief description of few important mosques in India and how each one of them was built upon plundered Hindu temples.
ReplyDeletea. Qawwat al-Islam Mosque at Delhi: "According to my findings the first mosque of Delhi is Qubbat al-Islam or Quwwat al-Islam which, Qutubud-Din Aibak constructed in H. 587 after demolishing the Hindu temple built by Prithvi Raj and leaving certain parts of the temple outside the mosque proper; and when he returned from Ghazni in H. 592 he started building, under orders from Shihabud-Din Ghori, a huge mosque of inimitable red stones, and certain parts of the temple were included in the mosque..."
b. The Mosque at Jaunpur: "This was built by Sultan Ibrahim Sharqi with chiseled stones. Originally it was a Hindu temple after demolishing which he constructed the mosque. It is known as the Atala Masjid."
c. The Mosque at Qanauj: "It is well known that this mosque was built on the foundations of some Hindu temple that stood here. The mosque was built by Ibrahim Sharqi in H. 809 as is recorded in Gharbat Nigar."
d. Jami Masjid at Etwah: "This mosque stands on the bank of the Jamuna at Etawah. There was a Hindu temple at this place, on the site of which this mosque was constructed. ."
e. Babri Masjid at Ayodhya: "This mosque was constructed by Babar at Ayodhya which Hindus call the birth place of Ramchandraji... Sita had a temple here in which she lived and cooked for her husband. On that very site Babar constructed this mosque in H.963 "
f. Mosque at Benaras: "Mosque of Benares was built by Alamgir Aurangzeb on the site of Bisheshwar Temple. That temple was very tall and held as holy among Hindus. On this very site and with those very stones he constructed a lofty mosque, and its ancient stones were rearranged after being embedded in the walls of the mosque. It is one of the renowned mosques of Hindustan."
g. Mosque at Mathura: "Alamgir Aurangzeb built a mosque at Mathura. This mosque was built on site of the Govind Dev Temple which was very strong and beautiful as well as exquisite."
Palestine aka Greater Israel is Jewish territory according to International law and treaties, additionally incorporating the January 3, 1919 Faisal Weizmann agreement executed by both parties in London on January 3, 1919.
ReplyDeleteThe Law of Return is for The Jews and reciprocating equity by the Arabs
The Law of Return is for The Jews, the option to return to Greater Israel and The Arab-Palestinians to leave Greater Israel and return to the Arab countries they originated from. The Arab-Palestinians should move to the Million plus Jewish homes and land confiscated by the Arab countries from the million persecuted and expelled Jewish families and the 120,440 sq. km. of Real estate property the Arabs confiscated from the million plus Jewish families and their children expelled from Arab countries. That is the only viable alternative. (why are we ignoring the Faisal Weizmann agreement of January 3, 1919 which is the only valid agreement executed by both the Arabs and the Jews). In reviewing various legal aspects of agreements and resolutions to be applied to third parties, all resolutions by the UN which are recommendation only, must be executed and agreed to by the parties otherwise they have no validity. Therefore, any and all resolutions issued by the UN which have not been executed and agreed to by the parties have no affect and are null and void. This applies to any of the League of Nation and the UN resolutions that affect the territories and boundaries of Israel and any other resolutions that affect Israel. That leaves us back to the territory allocated by the San Remo Conference of 1920 and its confirmation by the Treaty of Sevres and Lausanne, which is all of Palestine. (By the way I have the minutes of the 1918-19 Paris Conference, The 1920 San Remo Conference and The Treaty of Sevres which was executed by all the Supreme Allied Powers).
Face it and stop hallucinating, once and for all. There will never be an Arab-Palestinian State in Greater Israel West of the Jordan River (Judea and Samaria). Jerusalem is the United Eternal Capital of the Jewish people. Jordan is The new Arab state on Jewish land and they forbid Jews from living in Jordan.
ReplyDeleteResponding to arguments that million Jews expelled from Arab countries has no bearing on the Arabs who left Palestine or Arabs displaced from Jewish land and or formerly Ottoman government land has nothing to do with each other. The law of equity in not a one way street, it works both ways. The Arab nations that expelled the million plus Jewish families and their children who now reside in Israel (who lived in the Arab countries for over 2,700 years and owned over 120,000 sq. km. of land, homes, businesses and personal assets valued in the trillions of dollars) they are the ones who asked the Arabs in Palestine to vacate their homes while they obliterate the Jews and they are the ones supporting the Arab-Palestinians in demanding law of return and compensation. Those Arab countries are financing the Arab-Palestinians in their quest to eject the Jews a second time from their own historical ancestral homeland. The best and only solution is a population transfer.
YJ Draiman
P.S. Over one million Jewish families and their children have been terrorized and forced to flee from Arab countries and hundreds of Jewish communities have been ethnically cleansed throughout this century. Most of these Jewish refugees now live in Israel and their old homes are no more. The Arab countries confiscated the Jewish personal assets, businesses, homes and over 120,000 sq. km. of Real estate property owned by the Jews for over 2,300 years, which is 6 times the size of Israel and valued in the trillions of dollars. In fact, Jews who immigrated to Israel from Arab and Muslim lands and their descendants constitute over 50% of Israel's population. Moreover the British illegally reallocated over 77& Jewish allocated land on the East Bank of the Jordan River and established a new Arab State for the Arab-Palestinians. To add to the injustice, the Arabs in Jordan expelled all the Jews and confiscated all their properties and forbids any Jew to own property or reside in Jordan.
Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria is Jewish territory - No annexation is required
ReplyDeleteIf anything it may need to be re-incorporated or re-patriated and sovereignty applied.
Let me pose an interesting scenario. If you had a country and it was conquered by foreign powers over a period of time. After many years you have taken back you country and land in various defensive wars. Do you have to officially annex those territories? It was always your territory and by retaking control and possession of your territory it is again your original property and there is no need to annex it. The title to your property is valid today as it was many years before.
Annexation only applies when you are taking over territory that was never yours to begin with, just like some European countries annexed territories of other countries.
YJ Draiman
Jews hold title to the Land of The Land of Israel even if outnumbered a million to one.
The fact that more foreigners than Jews occupied the Land of Israel during certain periods of time does not diminish true ownership. If my house is invaded by a family that is ten times larger that mine does that obviates my true ownership?
Jewish roots and rights to all the land of The Land of Israel are stronger than ever!
“If I am turned out of hearth and home and remain outside one night, I am legally entitled to return the following day. If I suffer for ten, twenty, five thousand or fifty thousand nights, does my right of return stand in inverse relationship to the length of my exile? Quite the contrary; my right to return and recover my freedom becomes stronger in direct proportion to what I have endured, not by virtue of some abstract arithmetic, but because of the nights spent in exile, and because I want my children, to be spared a similar experience.”
YJ Draiman
I tell the Arab-Palestinians. Go ahead try and take my/our Jewish land if you want to try!
ReplyDeleteThere are laws that will stop you and than there is me/us the IDF that will stop you! We are done being pushed around by anyone. We will fight back and defend ourselves; we will not let the Holocaust repeat itself - NEVER AGAIN.
As it is now, Israel has the Jewish land by right!
That is just the fact!
I am also telling the rest of the world to mind its own business and stay out of Israel's internal affairs.
They have their own problems to contend with.
They were complicit during WWII when over 6 million Jews, men, women and children were exterminated. This will not happen again! The world stood by while the Arab countries terrorized and expelled over a million Jewish families and their children where they have lived for over 2600 years. These expelled Jewish families now reside in The Land of Israel, their historical homeland.
There is a real status quo that requires energy to make the change!
Are you going to put in the energy to try to change it???
Maybe it is better to cut your continued losses and accept whatever generous package we the Israelis offer you the Arab-Palestinians, because quite frankly under the current conditions we do not owe the Arab-Palestinians anything (there is also the Faisal Weizmann Agreement of 1919) and we can just unilaterally set our own legal borders insisting that viable land for real Arab-Palestinians self determination already exists in Jordan on Jewish land which is originally over 77% of Jewish allocated land under the San Remo Treaty of 1920!
The Arab-Palestinian can also relocate to the Jewish homes and land (over 120,000 sq. km. which is 6 times the size of Israel) previously owned by the million Jewish families who were terrorized and expelled and all their assets and land confiscated by the Arab countries, the confiscated assets and land which is at over six times the size of Israel and is valued in the trillions of dollars.
Israel has resettled the million Jewish families refugees expelled from Arab lands, with limited resources. It is time that the Arab countries resettle the Arab-Palestinians refugees, in Jordan which was suppose to be part of the Jewish state, or the over 120,000 sq. km. of land that the Arab countries confiscated from the Jews who owned it for over 2,500 years.
The options we are proposing to the Arab-Palestinians is more than fair, considering you are constantly terrorizing and killing our people every chance you get. That is what you teach your Arab children and masses to do.
It all depends on whether we can see the Arab-Palestinians
as peaceful neighbors and there is nothing that they have ever done to date
that can lead us to believe that they will be good peaceful neighbors! On the contrary; their actions and incitement has been more terror and violence, and the indiscriminate killing of men, women and children, including babies in their cribs.
YJ Draiman
“Historically, there was an exchange of populations in the Middle East and Europe and the number of displaced Jews exceeds the number of Arab-Palestinian refugees. Most of the million Jews were expelled as a result of an open policy of anti-Semitic incitement and even ethnic cleansing. However, unlike the Arab refugees, the Jews who fled are a forgotten case because of a combination of international cynicism and domestic Israeli suppression of the subject (recently the government of Israel has set a day for the memory of the Jewish refugees from Arab countries). The Arab-Palestinians are the only group of refugees out of the more than one hundred million who were displaced after World War II who have a special UN agency that, according to its mandate, cannot but perpetuate their tragedy. An open debate about the forced exodus of the terrorized Jews is critical for countering the Arab/Palestinian demand for the “right of return” and will require a more objective scrutiny of the myths about the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict.”
ReplyDeleteAs Professor Stephen Schwebel, former judge on the Hague's International Court of Justice notes:
ReplyDeleteThe Arab-Palestinian claim to sovereignty over east Jerusalem under the principle of self-determination of peoples cannot supersede the Jewish right to self-determination in Jerusalem. While Arabs constituted an ethnic majority only in the artificial entity of "East Jerusalem" created by Jordan's illegal division of the city, the armistice lines forming this artificial entity were never intended to determine the borders of, or political sovereignty over, the city. Moreover, Jews constituted the majority ethnic group in unified Jerusalem both in the century before Jordan's invasion, and since 1967 (the exception being during Jordan's illegal occupation).
Sir Elihu Lauterpacht, an international legal expert, scholar and director emeritus of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge, details the legal justification for Israel's sovereignty in east Jerusalem. According to the scholar, "Jordan's occupation of the Old City–and indeed of the whole of the area west of the Jordan river entirely lacked legal justification" and was simply a "de facto occupation protected by the Armistice Agreement." This occupation ended as a result of "legitimate measures" of self defense by Israel, thereby opening the way for Israel as "a lawful occupant" to fill a sovereignty vacuum left by Britain's withdrawal from the territory in 1948.
“We must be ready to sacrifice all for our country Israel.
ReplyDeleteFor history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. We must continue to acquire proficiency in defense and display determination and stamina in purpose.” Never surrender and never capitulate – we are fighting for our survival and the alternative is extinction.
Israel’s mission first and foremost is to take care of the Jewish people and insure their safety and security in all of Israel west of the Jordan River. Israel’s obligation is to its Jewish People and not to pacify the world at large. The historical facts are that for thousands of years the world at large has always persecuted the Jewish people and stood idle while millions of Jews are exterminated, persecuted and their assets confiscated.
Right now we are in a badly separated, internally struggling, and bickering state both within Israel and also in the Diaspora. And our enemies are happily latching onto this internal fragmentation exploiting us against each other and leading successful campaigns against us on all fronts.
No political wisdom, trickery; neither weapons and a mighty army can save Israel or Jews worldwide unless we rise above our differences, above our argumentative nature and form a single united Nation that is impenetrable.
And that wouldn’t just save us but would blaze a trail of hope for others in this crazy world where there are no allies or friends any more only enemies waiting for the opportunity to destroy each other.
We may not agree on everything, but we must respect each other and work together for our common goal which is survival in this hostile world which is on a spiraling deterioration.
“A United Israel is a Strong Israel” Unity above all is our key to survival.
YJ Draiman
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean!
“I am mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore”
ReplyDeleteHow many Jewish lives have to be lost before the Israeli government takes a decisive action, no holds barred and zero tolerance? Israel must practice “Death to all the terrorists”, and no restraint to terror and violence. A terrorist is a terrorist; the age or gender of the terrorist does not mitigate an act of terrorism, or the consequences thereof. Israel must execute mandatory eviction and demolition of homes, confiscation of property to compensate for the damage and barring Arabs in those areas. Let the Arabs know that if this terror and violence continues, the price will be high and non-negotiable. Stop talking; let’s see some serious action on the ground. Any rocket attack by the Arabs must be responded with a square kilometer of carpet bombing. This situation is spiraling out of control and the government and its security forces are deliberating and hesitating to take forceful and uncompromising actions. The Israeli government must consider first and foremost the safety and security of its people and not the biased world nations, who throughout history stood idle while Jews were killed, tortured, terrorized and persecuted. Israeli people are trained soldiers; they know how to defend themselves. If the government is not able to stop this wave of terror, it is the Job of the Israelis to defend themselves. This is not Nazi Germany; this is Israel, our own historical land with our own government and a strong defense force, that has the capacity to accomplish its task, provided it is not restricted, use it and stop the ghetto victim mentality. “Death to the terrorists”, nothing less will suffice. May the lord support you in defending yourselves, but G-d helps those who help themselves. Israel must take a strong initiative once and for all.
YJ Draiman
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Israel should give a 90 day notice the UN (which its resolutions are non-binding and have no legal standing) and the world at large that it intends to exercise its historical and international rights under the international law and treaties post WWI and the 1919 Faisal Weizmann Agreement, which are still in effect and have not been superseded. Under those treaties all of Palestine aka “The Land of Israel” is in effect belongs to Israel and the Jewish people. Israel will no longer tolerate the deceptive term of occupation by Israel; it is internationally guaranteed Jewish land liberated by Israel. It is the Arabs who are the occupiers of Jewish territory.
After WWI the Arabs received over 12 million sq. km. of territory with a wealth of oil reserves. It is time to question Arab sovereignty over the 12 million sq, km. of land they received from the Supreme Allied Powers at the 1920 San Remo Conference, after WWI.
YJ Draiman
Before Israel’s government forfeit Israel’s rights to the Jewish historical land and any other rights it must be put to a national vote.
ReplyDeleteThe Israeli government must not have the authority to relinquish Jewish land or other rights without a national vote by the people; this must be the law of the land. This also applies to any agreements or treaties that compromises and or promises that surrender Israel rights and its people’s rights in any shape or form.
According to International law and treaties of post WWI, which allocated over 6 million square miles of territory to the Arabs and the 46,332 square miles of Palestine to the Jewish people, Jordan and Gaza is part of Israel, since they were part of Palestine aka “The Land of Israel”. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the president of Egypt stated that he would give land in the Sinai with ocean front for the Arab Palestinians. Whether Jordan likes it or not over 75% of its population is Arabs who call themselves Arab-Palestinians.
(The UN has violated the law and the Charter of the UN by allocating Jewish territory under international law and treaties to Jordan. The UN Partition of Israel was also a violation of the UN Charter. Furthermore, the UN cannot create states or borders, it can only recommend; not withstanding, Israel accepted, but the Arabs rejected the partition, that makes the UN partition recommendation of 1947 mute and meaningless.
Israel was reconstituted in 1920 by International law and treaties, including the 1919 Faisal Weizmann Agreement. Israel took over sovereign control on May 14, 1947 after the British abandoned their duty and obligation, thus, the Jewish people became a majority in the land which according to international law they can declare sovereignty.
People must remember that the Arab countries have terrorized, persecuted and expelled over a million Jewish families and confiscated all their assets, personal property, businesses, homes, including over 120,000 square km. of Jewish owned Real Estate and land valued in the trillions of dollars, and most of those expelled Jewish families were resettled in The Land of Israel. The Arabs expelled the million Jewish families from their Arab countries (after living there for over 2,700 years, a thousand years before Islam was created), the million expelled Jewish families from Arab countries were resettled in Israel and now they want to expel them again from their own historical ancestral land.
Let the Arabs from Israel relocate to the Jewish homes and land confiscated by the Arab countries and Jordan which is also Jewish territory.
YJ Draiman
The Arab-Palestinians are the occupiers of Jewish land
ReplyDeleteThe Arab-Palestinians are the occupiers of Jewish land; inform the World they are delusional in thinking that Arabs belong in Israel - There will never be an Arab/Palestinian State together or adjacent to Eretz Israel. There has never been such a nation as the Arab/Palestinian People.
The Arab/Muslim Koran specifically states in The Qur'an 17:104 - states the land belongs to the Jewish people If the historic documents, archaeological excavations, comments written by eyewitnesses and declarations by the most authoritative Arab scholars are still not enough, let us quote the most important source for Muslim Arabs: "And thereafter we [Allah] said to the Children of Israel: 'Dwell securely in the Promised Land. And when the last warning will come to pass, we will gather you together in a mingled crowd'." Any sincere Muslim must recognize the Land they call "Palestine" aka “The Land of Israel” which is the Jewish Homeland, according to the book considered by Muslims to be the most sacred word and Allah's ultimate revelation. Any rebuilding of Jewish communities and structures destroyed by the Arabs and building of housing in The Greater Israel west of the Jordan River is the right and duty of the Israeli government. There is no such a thing as occupied territory, it is Jewish liberated territory. It is the land of Israel for over 4,000 years. Sequence of historical events, agreements and a non-broken series of treaties and resolutions (including the January 1919 Faisal Weizmann Agreement.
The Arabs received over 12 million sq. km. of territory after WWI with a wealth of oil reserves), as laid out by the Supreme Allied Powers in the 1920 San Remo Resolution which incorporated the 1917 Balfour Declaration as international law, implemented partially by the League of Nations and the United Nations, gives only to the Jewish People a confirmation of its title to the city of Jerusalem and the rest of Israel. Let the Arab nations take the Arab-Palestinians and settle the Arabs in the Million plus Jewish homes that they terrorized and expelled from their countries or to Jordan and allow the only Jewish nation to live in peace.
A true peace in the Middle East will be an economic phenomenon that the world has never seen. But this can only be accomplished when there is a real and sincere peace.
The Arabs must stop preaching and teaching hate and violence; educate the children and the masses to live in peace and harmony. Any liberal Israeli that is delusional about Arab intention to take over all of Israel and wants to give any land in Israel west of the Jordan River to the Arabs should leave Israel; he/she does not belong in Israel.
YJ Draiman
Arabs from Israel should be relocated to Jordan which is also Jewish territory illegally allocated by the British as the new Arab State for the Arabs, in violation of International Agreements and treaties and the territory west of the Jordan River which is the current State of Israel. If the Arabs keep insisting, Israel should take over Jordan. All the Arabs can be relocated to the homes and over 120,000 sq. km. (which is 6 times the size of Israel) the Arab countries confiscated from the million Jewish families terrorized and expelled from Arab countries and most of them were resettled in Israel and today comprise over half the population. The same shall apply to Gaza if they continue to attack Israel.
ReplyDeleteWe shall consider: ”Anyone in Israel considering the surrender of Jewish territory is treason and must be prosecuted”
Clipping from Saint Petersburg Times (approximately 1946)
ReplyDeleteWashington - (UP) - Britain's treaty grafting independence to Trans-Jordan violates agreements with the United States, the United Nations and the Old League, as well as the rights of the people of Palestine, Senator Francis J. Myers, Pennsylvania democrat, charged yesterday.
Echoing the words of Senator Claude Pepper, Democrat, Florida, who flayed U.S. foreign policy, Thursday, Myers asserted that Trans-Jordan is not ready for the statehood and "illegally granted". And in offering that goal of all dependencies, he added Britain has acted "in contempt of the senate of the United States."
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"WHY THIS HASTE and Stealth?" he asked in a floor speech. "The British government which has fought all attempts at freedom, all movements for independence in the Middle East, is now discovered in the gracious role of liberator.
"Are there perhaps some hidden resources, mineral wealth or oil which are involved?"
He demanded that the state department explain its failure to protest the treaty violation, and urged that the senate demand all the facts.
Pepper charged that the United States had become a guarantor of British Imperialism, and that the British-Trans-Jordan agreement was but a "subterfuge" so long as his majesty's troops are allowed to remain in that country. He also asserted that the United States and Britain were ganging up on Russia, and added:
"WHAT I DECRY is the international hypocrisy, sham and pretense. If the British people want the Russians to get their troops out of Iraq, let them get their troops out of Trans-Jordan. Let them get their troops out of Lebanon and Syria, and let them get their troops out of Palestine aka The Land of Israel."
Myers picked up that tune, changing only the words. In angry mood, the dark-haired Pennsylvanian told his colleagues that:
1. The territory of Trans-Jordan is contained in the original mandate for Palestine, and under its terms, the mandate could not be unilaterally altered.
2. Under the Anglo-American Convention of 1924, Britain could not change the mandate's terms without the consent of the United States.
3. This violation of the treaty with the United States also "strikes at the charter of the United Nations adopted at San Francisco" which "specifically states that no change can be made in the status of mandated territories without the approval of the Jewish people in Palestine and UNO's general assembly."
Myers asserted that there was no more justification for separating Trans-Jordan from Palestine then there was for "the separation of the United States into two nations: Trans-Mississippi and Cis-Mississippi." The U.S. lost over 600,000 people during the civil war in order to prevent the breaking up the country
"Aaron Burr tried to do that to our nation" he said. "He was tried for treason".
We shall consider: ”Anyone in Israel considering the surrender of Jewish territory is treason and must be prosecuted”
Posted by YJ Draiman
For former UN Ambassador, Professor Yehuda Zvi Blum, the rights vested in the Arab people of Palestine with respect to the principle of self-determination were fulfilled by violating the rights of the Jews and as a result of this initial partition of Palestine illegally approved by the Council of the League of Nations in 1922 contrary to international agreement. According to Professor Blum: “The Arab Palestinians have long enjoyed self-determination in their own state – the Arab Palestinian State of Jordan”. (Worth mentioning here, in a letter apparently written on 17 January 1921 to Churchill’s Private Secretary, Col. T.E. Lawrence (“of Arabia”) had reported that, in return for Arab sovereignty in Iraq, Trans-Jordan and Syria, King Hussein’s eldest son, Emir Feisal—a man said by Lawrence to be known for keeping his word—had “agreed to abandon all claims of his father to Palestine”.) In favor of the Jewish people.
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Not so, Yosef. Joan Peters reproduces in her book "From Time Immemorial" (p. 226) some tables from the 1931 British Mandate census, which lists the birthplaces of the registered inhabitants of the Jerusalem district (not the unregistered ones that entered unnoticed by the lax British administration). Amongst Muslims, Algeria is listed, and other Maghreb countries, along with nearly 30 other foreign birthplaces, from as far away as India, Indonesia and Australia. This process had been going on for more than a century, as Arieh L. Avneri, The Claim of Dispossession (1982) shows, in his first heavily documented and long first chapter. Both Egyptian and Ottoman governments had transferred into the region whole tribes and villages (some from the Maghreb) to sustain a population base, and to counter the constant attrition by epidemics, feuds, outright warfare, high mortality rates, and out-migration by Muslims. According to the studies of Otto Schmelz and Ruth Kark, published in Gad G. Gilbar, ed., Ottoman Palestine: 1800-1914 (2011), at least 20% of the Muslims settled by 1905 in the Jerusalem district, and even more of those drawn by employment opportunities around Jewish habitation areas in the coastal regions, came from elsewhere, and at least half were from outside the Palestine region altogether, even at that relatively early point in modern Jewish Aliyah.
ReplyDeleteIt's a great resource and thoroughly covers a lot of issues in its 600 pages. It is so effective it has been rather hysterically and emotively slurred by pro-Palestinian advocates and anti-Semites alike because of its massive use of such things as British Mandate archives, census results, earlier historical accounts, travelers to the region in the early modern period reporting on its desolation, etc., etc., etc. Hard to refute, therefore the whole thing is simply called a "hoax." Trouble is, her sources are solid and there are hundreds of them, the population data is analysed by the leading American demographer of the 1980s, Philip Hauser, her research was guided by Bernard Lewis, Elie Kedourie, and other such leading authorities, and to top it all off she is vindicated by later independent studies like those I mentioned above.
The Ottomans granted asylum to Muslim refugees fleeing from their homelands for political and religious reasons: After the French conquest of Algeria in 1830, many Algerians settled in Palestine. This region also attracted other immigrant Muslim Arabs from Damascus and Kurds from Syria; In 1878, the Ottomans permitted Circassian (Muslim) refugees fleeing from Christian-Russian rule in the Caucasus to settle in cis- and trans-Jordan (today, Israel and Jordan); Turkoman tribes from the mountains of Iraq were allowed ultimately to settle on the slopes of Mount Carmel (near Haifa in Israel). In 1908, Arabs from Yemen settled in Jaffa.
ReplyDeleteArabs have been occupiers and illegal squatters for years, yes, but.... The JEWS have lived in "Palestine" (so named by the Romans) for 4000 ie) THOUSAND years!!!! Jews were here first. Jews PAID for the Temple Mount and we can prove it. ONLY Jews had a KINGDOM and nation on this land. And both the Torah and Koran acknowledge that it is OURS! You Arabs have 55 other states. Israel belongs to the JEWS.
The Palestine Citizenship Order in Council granted Palestinian citizenship to all of the extant population, Arab, Jewish, Christian, Whatever, in 1925. All of them were "Palestinians". At that time, Jewish people were a small minority in Palestine.
Freedom of Speech Limitations
ReplyDeleteIf you are in a theatre and you yell fire, when there is no fire and cause injuries to the audience at large by your yelling fire you have forfeited you right to free speech.
The same applies to anyone who promotes violence, incites the public to violence and sedition, and Uses his freedom of speech to promote treason against the State.
Israel has bent over backward in protecting the right to free speech.
It is time for Israel to go on the offensive and utilize its laws to prosecute those who abuse their right to free speech that right has its limitations.
We must hold Arab-Palestinians accountable for teaching hate, honoring terrorist and celebrating terror attacks.
Any capitulation or concessions to Arab-Palestinians demands breeds greater outrageous demands and more violence.
There never has been, there is not now and there never will be a country called “Arab/Palestine West of the Jordan River.
ReplyDelete”The Arab/Palestinians/Muslims squatting on Jewish land in and around Israel are overwhelmingly either descendants of invaders, illegal immigrants or trespassers. The term “Palestinian” was popularized after the Six Day War in ’67 in an attempt to delegitimize Israel. There are already 21 Arab/Muslim dominated countries spread out over 5 million square miles of territory with a wealth of oil reserves, including most of Jordan which was part of the Jewish allocated land under the League of Nations in 1922. It also stated that the Jewish people are to set up their own government and none other. The Arabs also expelled over a million Jewish families from their countries and confiscated all their assets, personal valuables, businesses, homes and over 120,000 sq. km of Jewish owned Real Estate for over 2,500 years, many of the Jewish people died while being forced to leave the Arab countries. The Arab/Muslims are not interested in creating a 22nd Arab controlled country. Their only desire is to annihilate the one and only Jewish state."
And We said thereafter to the Children of Israel “Dwell securely in the land (of … (Holy Quran 17:104). (Surah Al-Ma’ida, verse 21), and the other (Surah Al-Shara’a, verse 59) says that the land was bequeathed to the Jews.
1. Under International Law and Treaties, including the 1919 Faisal Weizmann Agreement – An Arab/Palestinian State cannot be established in The Land of Israel on Jewish land allocated to the Jewish people under the 1920 San Remo agreement of 1922 which adopted the 1917 Balfour Declaration, the 1919 Faisal Weizmann Agreement and ratified by the League of Nations and signed by 51 member states.
Jordan is the Palestinian State – The land originally allocated to the Jewish people,
The British violated the agreement and gave it to the Arabs.
YJ Draiman
British reneging on it's obligation to Israel THE FORSAKEN PROMISE
ReplyDeleteLeague of Nations - A Dying Protest
As it became apparent that Britain was about to repudiate its obligations under the Mandate, indignation and anger were voiced, particularly in the United States. In its dying moments, the League of Nations accused Britain of a flagrant breach of its Mandate, calling attention to her "virtual suspension" of Jewish immigration. In the face of these reactions, and at a time of an international crisis in Europe, the British cabinet met on October 19 and announced that no drastic action would be taken against the Jews. The plans for a reorganized Arab Palestine were shelved, and it was announced that military action would be taken at once to put down the Arab rebels.
In November 1938, the British Government convened the London Conference on the future of Palestine. It was attended by the representatives of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Yemen and Trans-Jordan - as well as a Palestinian Arab delegation (which was split between followers of the Mufti and people who were frightened of him), the Zionist Executive, and the British hosts. The Conference broke up in deadlock on March 17, 1939, two days after Hitler's occupation of Prague. It paved the way for a unilateral statement from the British Government, which would be much more favorable to the Arabs than any official statement since the beginning of the Mandate. This was the famous White Paper of May 1939, of which the main provisions were: no partition; no Jewish state; an independent Arab state within 10 years; Jewish immigration, after five years, would not be allowed "unless the Arabs of Palestine were prepared to acquiesce in it".
The legality of the White Paper, in terms of the Mandate, was not only contested by the Jews. The Permanent Mandates Commission, reporting to the Council of the League, found unanimously "that the policy set out in the White Paper was not in accordance with the interpretation which, in agreement with the Mandatory Power and the Council, the Commission had placed upon the Palestine Mandate."
A Jewish right to live in peace in Israel must be enforced
ReplyDeleteWhy as a Jew does the world think it has a right to torture me? Israel was created to prevent this and yet on my home soil someone thinks that he has a right to torture me because I am a Jew. Israel of all places in the world should be my sanctuary especially because its the Jewish official state for all Jews. Is it because I am a Jew that I deserve missiles to be thrown upon me? Is it because I am a Jew that another Jew has the right to prevent me from praying to my God on the Temple Mount? Many Jewish souls died and continue dying in Israel for the sole reason that they are Jews. Their fate was in the hand of their leaders. They deserved so much more then being murdered just because they were Jewish. We do no want to repeat the Holocaust again. Israel must learn to secure the safety of every citizen under its roof. Enough of trying to be the advocate for the these evil people called Arab-Palestinians. Israel is the home of the Jewish people. It is written in all of the holly books, the bible and history books, including archeological excavations in Israel. Enough of trying to accommodate the Arab-Palestinian people that thrive on hate and destruction towards me as a Jew. Israel must be strong and extremely strict in enforcing its laws and sovereignty. Hamas should have been destroyed, just like any other enemy of Israel who wants to destroy her. Order must be restored in the Gaza. Now the west bank (Judea and Samaria) thinks that they can torture me a Jew. Enough is enough. The time is not for revenge but for law and order with a clear message to Abbas and his P.A. that these terror and violence acts are his responsibility. If he cannot stop it, Israel will have no alternative, but to take appropriate action to stop terror and violence. Moreover, Hamas the terrorist organization must be shut down once and for all. I am a Jew and I deserve to live in peace in my own country without threat and intimidation, I expect the respect and protection that is due to me especially by my Jewish leaders.
The increased Arab terrorism and violence in Greater Israel is promoting Arab-Palestinian population transfer
The Arab attacks on Jews and continued violence explicitly raising the option of population transfer by recommending that Israel "find an outlet for this [Arab-Palestinian] population east of the Jordan River and elsewhere. Also promoting the venue of relocating Arab-Palestinians in Israel to the Million homes of Jewish people who were expelled from Arab countries.
YJ Draiman
The unrelenting obstacles to peace between Israel and the Arab-Palestinians
ReplyDeleteAt the core of the Arab-Israeli conflict is the Arab world's refusal to accept a non-Muslim political entity in the Middle East.
Peace requires an Arab world that recognizes Israel as a legitimate political entity. Legitimacy means a State with viable and defensible borders where the Jews can exercise their own rights of self-determination (as stated in the Treaty of San Remo 1920) by virtue of demographics (i.e., a Jewish majority) – dominion that is reflected in the cultural and the political life of the Jewish nation.
The Arab's refusal to recognize Israel and their attempts to destroy the Jewish state are among the defining characteristics of Arab-Palestinian society. Measures designed to destroy Israel vary from use of force (through wars, Intifada's, suicide bombing of the population including women and children, violent riots, fabricating events and history, revolts and terrorism) to use the economic and demographic forces (economic boycotts, demands for jobs in Israel, causing intentional sabotage in the workplace while working in Israel, Palestinian infiltration into Israel without visas or other permits, and demands that Palestinian refugees from 1948 and their descendants be allowed to return to Israel). Absolute antipathy and intolerance towards non-Muslim political entities is a fate Jews shared with the Christians in Lebanon, even though Israel inhabits no more than 0.01 percent of the Middle Eastern landscape.
For over 99 years, Palestinian behavior has been based on total rejection of the Jewish State and political violence. The Palestinian refugee problem created in 1948 did not spark those strategies, nor did the “Occupation” (Liberalization of Jewish ancestral land) of the Territories in the wake of the 1967 Six-Day War, which brought back Israeli control over the West Bank (Judea and Samaria - which historically has been a Jewish entity) and Gaza .
Arabs have rejected the presence of Jews with political aspirations to rebuild their ancient homeland since the advent of political Zionism. When in 1890 the number of Jewish immigrants leaving the country equaled the number of new arrivals, and ten years of Zionist endeavor, had produced barely a dozen struggling and insolvent Jewish agricultural settlements. Arab notables from Jerusalem called upon the Ottoman administration to ban Jewish immigration and the sale of land to Jews.
At each juncture when attempts to reach a ‘live-and-let-live' solution have been advanced, Arab responses have boiled down to a two-pronged offensive that dovetails diplomacy with violence. In short, the Arabs, and particularly the Arab-Palestinians, have refused to recognize Israel as a legitimate entity or to negotiate a genuine compromise. Instead, they have tried to drive the Jews out through violence and terror and educating their children to hate and commit atrocities against the Jews.
After numerous attempts at reaching a peace agreement with the Arab-Palestinians, Israel has no choice but to utilize all its resources to quell the Arab-Palestinians violence and bring about security and safety to its citizens, utilizing zero tolerance for violence.
No limit should be set to Israel's response to subdue the perpetrators and bring about peace and tranquility to the masses.
The world at large must keep its meddling out of the Israeli and Arab Palestinians conflict. Their meddling only inflames and prolongs the conflict and hostilities.
International Legal Rights of the Jewish People and the State of Israel
ReplyDeleteIn international law, as in all law, there are always two sides to a question. If this were not the case, there would be little need for legal solutions. Moreover, both parties in any conflict believe the right is on their side, or at least that they have means to prove this to be so. Accordingly, no law is ever created in a vacuum; a law is created when a serious enough need arises. In 1917, owing to the events of World War I, a serious need was identified and a voice was raised. The need was that of the Jewish people, dispersed across the earth for some two thousand years, to have a national home. The voice was that of Lord Balfour, speaking on behalf of the British War Cabinet in defense of the Jewish people worldwide. This compelling need found official expression in the Balfour Declaration of 1917. The Balfour Declaration was a political statement with no legal authority; moreover, it was not international. Nonetheless it was a major turning point in the history of the dispersed Jewish people, giving them a future hope of eventually fulfilling their never dying longing for their ancient Holy Land. What it accomplished was to raise the profile, internationally, of the need of a stateless people to have a “national home” to which they could return. Of monumental significance was the official recognition of the all-important historic, religious and cultural links of the Jews to the land of their forefathers, the land that had come to be known under the Greeks and Romans as “Palestine”. Because the cause was just and the concept justified, there needed to be a way to elevate the content of this Declaration to the level of international law. Accordingly, the matter was taken up by the Supreme Council of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers (Britain, France, Italy, Japan and the United States) at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. The issue became more complex as submissions for territorial claims were presented by both Arab and Jewish delegations, as the old Ottoman Empire was being apportioned out to the victorious Powers; thus the matter was not able to be settled within the time frame of the Paris Conference. What did happen at the Paris Conference that factored into the progression of events we are considering here was the establishment of the League of Nations which, in Article 22 of its Covenant, provided for the setting up of a mandate system as a trust for the Old Ottoman territories. The next important milestone on the road to international legal status and a Jewish national home was the San Remo Conference, held at Villa Devachan in San Remo, Italy, from 18 to 26 April 1920. This was an ‘extension’ of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 for the purpose of dealing with some of these outstanding issues. The aim of the four (out of five) members of the Supreme Council of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers that met in San Remo (the United States being present as observer only, owing to the new noninterventionist policy of President Woodrow Wilson), was to consider the earlier submissions of the claimants, to deliberate and to make decisions on the legal recognition of each claim. The outcome, relying on Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, was the setting up of (3) three mandates, one over Syria and Lebanon (later separated into two mandates), one over Mesopotamia (Iraq), and one over Palestine.
The Mandate for Palestine was entrusted to Great Britain, as a “sacred trust of civilization” in respect of “the establishment in all of Palestine of a National Home for the Jewish people”.
ReplyDeleteThis was a binding resolution with all the force of international law.
In two out of the original three Mandates, it was recognized that the indigenous people had the capacity to govern themselves, with the Mandatory Power merely assisting in the establishment of the institutions of government, where necessary. This was not true of Palestine, as Palestine was, under the Mandate, to become a homeland (“national home”) for the Jewish people. Although the Jewish people were part of the indigenous population of Palestine, the majority of them at that time were not living in the Land. The Mandate for Palestine was thus quite different from the others and set out how the Land was to be settled by Jews in preparation for their forming a viable nation in the territory then known as “Palestine”. The unique obligations of the Mandatory to the Jewish people in respect of the establishment of their national home in all of Palestine thus gave a sui generis (unique, one of a kind) character to the Mandate for Palestine.
The boundaries of the “Palestine” referred to in the claimants’ submissions included territories west and east of the Jordan River.
The submissions of the Jewish claimants specified that the ultimate purpose of the mandate would be the “creation of an autonomous commonwealth”, provided “that nothing must be done that might prejudice the civil and religious rights of the non-Jewish communities at present established in Palestine”. The resulting Mandate for Palestine, approved by the Council of the League of Nations in July 1922, was an international treaty and, as such, was legally binding. The decision made in San Remo was a watershed moment in the history of the Jewish people who had been a people without a home for some two thousand years. From the perspective of Chaim Weizmann, president of the newly formed Zionist Organization and later to become the first President of the State of Israel, “recognition of our rights in Palestine is embodied in the treaty with Turkey, and has become part of international law. This is the most momentous political event in the whole history of our movement, and it is, perhaps, no exaggeration to say in the whole history of our people since the Exile.” To the Zionist Organization of America, the San Remo Resolution “crowns the British [Balfour] declaration by enacting it as part of the law of nations of the world.” The policy to be given effect in the Mandate for Palestine was consistent with the Balfour Declaration, in significantly recognizing the historic, cultural and religious ties of the Jewish people to the Holy Land, and even stronger than the Declaration through the insertion of the fundamental principle that Palestine should be reconstituted as the national home of the Jewish people. It is particularly relevant to underline the inclusion in the terms of the Mandate (through Article 2) of the fundamental principle set out in the Preamble of this international agreement that “recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country”. The primary objective of the Mandate was to provide a national home for the Jewish people—including Jewish people dispersed worldwide—in their ancestral home.
The Arab people, who already exercised sovereignty in a number of States, were guaranteed protection of their civil and religious rights under the Mandate as long as they wished to remain, even after the State of Israel was ultimately formed in 1948. Moreover, a new State; Trans-Jordan was meanwhile added as a territory under Arab sovereignty, carved out of the very mandated territory allocated to the Jewish people at issue, by the British, prior to the actual signing of the Mandate in 1922 (see below). When the Council of the League of Nations approved the Mandate for Palestine in July 1922, it became binding on all 51 Members of the League.
ReplyDeleteA Jew is one inwardly. That circumcision is of the heart, in The Holy Spirit of G-d, and not in the letter of The Law. He will have praise of G-d, and not care about the praise of other men. A Jew is an Oracle of Almighty G-d. He just needs to believe that, with his whole heart, and act on it.
ReplyDeleteIn view of Mahmoud Abbas the convicted murderer, incitement for terror and violence, and his violations of all the agreements. Israel has to dismantle the Arab Palestinian Authority; The Arab Palestinians have not lived up to any agreements. They teach their children hate and promote terrorism and violence.
ReplyDeleteIt is unfortunate that the Arabs cannot live in peace in Israel. A true and lasting peace will bring an enormous economic prosperity to all the people in the region. The Arabs have over 12 million sq. Km. of territory with a wealth of oil reserves, plus Jordan, which is Jewish territory.
The Jewish heritage as the remaining indigenous people in The Land of Israel including 2 Jewish Temples and many heroic battles to defend it, thus, the Jewish history goes back over 3,000 years with a continues habitation under extreme conditions. The Arabs/Muslims were nomads who milked the land and destroyed it as a viable source of habitation.
Many Jewish communities in what is now the Arab/Muslim countries were in existence for about 3,000 years. Prior to WWII, there were over a million Jewish families living in Arab/Muslim countries. The Arabs/Muslims during the rise of Muhammad in about 627 terrorized, killed and raped the Jewish women and confiscated all their assets, whereby some of those Jewish communities no longer exist. In the past 70 years the Arabs/Muslims have ethnic cleansed the Jews and Christians from the Arab/Muslim countries.
Israel must retain all the territory west of the Jordan River. It must also protect all Jewish Houses of Worship, Jewish burial sites with military presence at all times that include Temple Mount (The site of 2 Jewish Temples, that king David purchased the land from Aruna the Jebusite for building the Jewish Temple).
ReplyDeleteIt is more than enough that Israel lost over three quarters of its territory to Jordan from the 120,000 sq, km. originally allocated for the Jewish National Home on their Historical Land (which included a good part of Jordan of which the Jews were expelled and all their assets confiscated. Israel now has about 21,000 sq. km.). Moreover, the Arab countries terrorized and expelled over a million Jewish families and confiscated all their assets, including, personal, businesses, homes and over 120,000 sq. km of Jewish owned Real Estate for over 2,500 years (valued in the trillions of dollars). Most of the expelled Jewish families and their children were resettled in Israel. The Arabs/Muslims received over 12 million sq. km of territory after WWI with a wealth of oil reserves, and that territory is 70% vacant. The Arab countries, organizations and other nations who are funding the Arabs should demand that those funds must be utilized to resettle the Arabs in the Arab countries.
The more you concede and give to the Arabs, the more they want.
I am not conceding anything anymore. I have the results with Gaza. Anyone who is willing to permit another terrorist entity west of the Jordan River, needs his head examined.
YJ Draiman
The Arab P.A. hopes that the great powers will continue to pressure Israel into giving it concessions without requiring it ever to end or declare an end to the armed struggle. That is the Arab notion of maintaining Islamic honor. They would deceive infidel friends and infidel enemies into thinking they are making peace, without yielding anything.
ReplyDeleteThe cause of the Arab Israeli conflict in the Middle East; is, indeed, the "occupation": the Arab occupation of Judea and Samaria etc.
The “West Bank” (Judea and Samaria) is unclaimed land. Contrary to popular opinion, Israeli re-settlements are entirely legal as long as they are within the parameters of the 1922 Mandate of Palestine. This is the same mandate that legalized and encouraged the immigration of Jews to all parts of historic Israel.
Israel’s critics may be surprised to know that the 1922 Mandate has never been superseded in international law, not even by the United Nation’s 1947 partition plan. Because the Arabs refused to recognize the partition of “Palestine,” the legal status of Judea and Samaria reverted back to the 1922 law . The capture of Judea and Samaria from Jordan in 1967 was the first step in the restoration of the territory’s true legal status. It also means that Israel’s recent “land grab” is actually the fulfillment of the original 1922 Mandate.
(Quoting the Fourth Geneva Convention to argue that the settlements are in fact illegal is nonsensical. The Fourth Geneva Convention pertains only to cases of occupation of a sovereign entity. Because of the Arab refusal to reach an agreement between 1947 and 1949, the area popularly referred to as the West Bank never became the legal territory of any sovereign entity – not even Jordan, despite its occupation of the territory until 1967. Only Israel has a legal entitlement to Judea and Samaria.)
If anyone is in any doubt, they would do well to consult a document boasting the signatures of over 1,000 respected diplomats and legal experts from around the world, ranging from South Africa and Canada to Norway and Brazil. The file was delivered to the European Union’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in the form of a petition just over a year ago.
According to these legal experts, it is factually incorrect to refer to the settlements as illegal for the simple reason that the term “1967 lines” does not exist in international law. The pre-1967 lines are in fact 1949 armistice lines, and are not recognized lines or security lines. Moreover, the issue of borders is on the agenda of the peace talks and is subject to final status negotiations.
All of which means that the Palestinian-Arabs claim that statehood is an unassailable right should not be taken at face value. Arab hatred of Israel has never been about the settlements or even about land. The primary obstacle is an ideological refusal to recognize the Jewish people’s deep-rooted historic, cultural and legal connections to the entire land of Israel. Until the Arabs and the rest of the world accept that the Jews have an inalienable and legal right to live in Judea and Samaria, there will never be peace.
Jerusalem and Temple Mount
ReplyDeleteOne of the most popular lies that has become universally accepted as if it was an indisputable truth is the myth about Jerusalem being the third sacred place to Islam. It is quite rare to hear the honest truth, that Jerusalem is the First and Only Holiest place to Judaism! As a matter of fact, Jerusalem is not mentioned at all in the Koran, and Muhammad has never been there (perhaps he did not even know about the existence of Jerusalem!). The tale about his dream flight has been related with Jerusalem in a very recent time for political strategy purposes.
1) The Islamic claim to the Temple Mount is very recent – Jerusalem’s role as “The Third Holiest Site in Islam” in mainstream Islamic writings does not precede the 1930's. It was created by the grand mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini.
Most of the problems surrounding Jerusalem can be traced to two areas of dispute: the political area that asks Jerusalem to be the capital of both Israel and the hypothetic Palestine; the other and most contentious problem is the holiness of Temple Mount to both Judaism and Islam.
The role Jerusalem has in the Hebrew Holy Scriptures is well known and not open to debate; however, there are varying opinions on the holiness of Jerusalem, specifically Temple Mount to Islam.
Many if not most opinions that counter Islam’s claim point out the Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Qur’an and did not occupy any special role in Islam until recent political exigencies transformed Jerusalem into Islam’s “third holy site”. This falsehood was created by the grand mufti, Haj Amin al-Husseini. The mufti knew that nationalist slogans alone would not succeed in uniting the masses against arriving Jewish refugees; he therefore turned the struggle into a religious conflict. He addressed the masses clearly, calling for a holy war. Since the moment when he was appointed to the position of mufti, Haj Amin worked vigorously to raise Jerusalem’s status as an Islamic holy center.
2) The Islamic claim to Jerusalem is false – There were no mosques in Jerusalem in 632 c.e. at the death of Muhammad… Jerusalem was [then] a Christian-occupied city.
The Muslim “claim” to Jerusalem is allegedly based on what is written in the Koran, which although does not mention Jerusalem even once, nevertheless talks of the “furthest mosque” (in Sura 17:1): «Glory be unto Allah who did take his servant for a journey at night from the sacred mosque to the furthest mosque». But is there any foundation to the Muslim argument that this “furthest mosque” (al-masujidi al-aqsa) refers to what is today called the Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem? The answer is, NO!
In the days of Muhammad, who died in 632 of the Common Era, Jerusalem was a Christian-occupied city within the Byzantine Empire. Jerusalem was captured by caliph Omar only in 638 c.e., six years after Muhammad’s death. Throughout all this time there were only churches in Jerusalem, and a church stood on the Temple Mount, called the Church of Saint Mary of Justinian, built in the Byzantine architectural style. The Aqsa mosque was built 20 years after the Dome of the Rock, which was built in 691-692 by caliph Abd el-Malik. The name “Omar mosque” is therefore false. In or around 711, about 80 years after Muhammad died, Malik’s son, Abd el-Wahd ‒who ruled in 705-715‒ reconstructed the Christian-Byzantine Church of St. Mary and converted it into a mosque. He left the structure as it was, a typical Byzantine “basilica” structure with a row of pillars on either side of the rectangular “ship” in the centr. All he added was an onion-like dome on top of the building to make it look like a mosque. He then named it El-Aqsa, so it would sound like the one mentioned in the Koran.
ReplyDeleteConsequently, it is crystal clear that Muhammad could never have had this mosque in mind when he wrote the Koran (if he did so), since it did not exist for another three generations after his death. Rather, as many scholars long ago established, it is logical that Muhammad intended the mosque in Mecca as the “sacred mosque”, and the mosque in Medina as the “furthest mosque”. So much for the Muslim claim based on the Aqsa mosque.
With this understood, it is no wonder that Muhammad issued a strict prohibition against facing Jerusalem in prayer, a practice that had been tolerated only for some months in order to lure Jews to convert to Islam. When that effort failed, Muhammad put an abrupt stop to it on February 624. Jerusalem simply never held any sanctity for the Muslims themselves, but only for the Jews in their domain.
3) The present Arabic name of Jerusalem is “Al-Quds”… but “Al-Quds” is an abbreviation for “The Jewish Temple”!
ISRAEL AND THE SO CALLED "Arab-PALESTINIANS"
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THE EXCLUSIVE POLITICAL RIGHTS GRANTED TO THE JEWS IN 1920 AT SAN REMO
It is widely accepted, but not correct, that the West Bank may belong to the local Arabs in Palestine who in 1964, at the suggestion of the Soviet dezinformatsia, decided to call themselves "Palestinians.” as is apparent from reports of their invention by Major General Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest ranking defector from the Soviet bloc during the cold war. [1]
These "invented people" [2] also pretend they had long had a passion for self government. As shown in the footnote, the claim is actually of fairly recent origin. [3]
The full extent of Israel’s claim of sovereignty has not recently been stated. At most, it is said by the Israeli government that no one has sovereignty over the West Bank, but that Israel has the better claim. [4]
A better view is that the Jews obtained a beneficial interest in sovereignty over all of Palestine in the 1920 agreement at San Remo of a British Mandate for Palestine, that entrusted exclusive political or national rights in Palestine to Britain. The trust and guardianship was provided for the benefit of the World Jewry -- to vest when the Jews, a population minority of only 10% at the time, later matured into a legal interest. This vesting occurred at least by the time of the abandonment of the trusteeship by Britain in 1948 when the trust res devolved to the beneficiary, and in any event by the attainment of the Jews of a majority population in 1950.
The trusteeship was to be called a "mandate” as shown in Paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 22 of the League Covenant, but it was clearly based on the British legal concepts of trusts and guardianships.
It was in 1919 that Jan Smuts submitted a memorandum to the League, which later became Article 22. The Council of Ten drafted for the League of Nations as Part I of the Treaty of Versailles [5], an Article 22 providing for mandates for the areas in The Middle East and North Africa captured by the WWI Allies from the Ottoman Empire. This concept was later applied to other areas.
Two years earlier, in 1917, in advance of the end of WWI, the British had drafted and published a policy for the disposition of the captured Ottoman lands in Palestine. [6] Britain and France were at that time following the “secret’ Sykes-Picot Agreement in their disposition of Ottoman Lands. But in recognition of the historic association of the Jews with Palestine, the Balfour Declaration, a British Policy approved by its Cabinet, provided for exclusive political or national rights in Palestine to be granted to World Jewry.
The 1920 agreement of the WWI Allies at San Remo, on the terms of the Mandate turned what had been only a British Policy approved by the Cabinet, into International Law. Under Article 22 of the League of Nations Covenant, the rights had been provided in trust, [7].
The Jewish people are not only a national and political unit. Since their first appearance on the stage of history they have been the personification of a moral will and the bearers of a historic vision which they inherited from the prophets of Israel. It is impossible to understand the history of the Jewish people and their struggle for existence—both when they were a nation rooted in their own soil and more or less controlling their own destiny, and when they were a wandering people, exiled and dispersed—unless we bear in mind the unique idea which their history embodies, and the stubborn opposition, not only physical, political, and military, but also spiritual, moral, and intellectual, which the Jews have always confronted.
ReplyDeleteIn ancient times, our most important neighbors were Egypt and Babylon. The struggle with these mighty neighbors was political and military as well as cultural and spiritual. Israel's prophets spoke out against the spiritual influence of these neighbors on Israel's religio-moral concepts and social patterns. They advocated faith in one God, the unity of the human race, and the dominion of justice. Today, the Jewish people, having held their own, appear again in the same area in which they evolved. The entire environment in this region has been completely transformed since Bible days. The languages, religions, civilizations, and the very names of the ancient Middle Eastern peoples have disappeared. Yet Israel, though largely uprooted for two millenniums, continues its ancient traditions of language, faith, and culture—as it were, uninterruptedly.
YJ Draiman
Peace and coexistence between Israel and its Arab neighbors would be a dream come true!
ReplyDeleteI do not think that anyone could comprehend what a true peace and coexistence would bring to Israel and the Middle East.
As long as the Arab-Palestinians incite the masses to terrorize and commit violence against Israel and each other, peace and coexistence will stay a dream.
The Arab Palestinians must start by educating their children and the masses that violence begets violence and that the only way to improve their lives is to pursue peace and coexistence.
Stop celebrating and rewarding terrorists and those who commit violence and destruction. If the Arab-Palestinians truly want peace they must practice it. The leaders the Imams and anyone who has influence on the masses.
Both sides will have to be careful not to let the extremists jeopardize this approach and direction. There will always be someone who will try to sabotage any conciliatory coexistence. Both sides will have to set up a joint working group to address safety and security. Plan and implement the economic future of all the people. It is not going to be easy after a century of hostilities, but if there is a will there is a way and it can be done.
Both sides must learn to respect each other. It will help greatly in bridging the differences and bringing about the tranquility that is so greatly desired.
It must start by taking small steps and confidence building between the Israelis and the Arab-Palestinians. As the confidence building steps are accomplished, the flow of cooperation will increase, the animosity will decrease and the friendship and cooperation will increase. These will bring an economic prosperity and monumental surge in the standard of living.
Funds and resources that were used for advancing the conflict will be diverted to the economy and the advancement in the quality of life for all the inhabitants in the region.
A true peace will bring a tremendous economic prosperity to the region, which all the people in the region will benefit from.
YJ Draiman
BEN-GURION’S DECLARATION ON THE EXCLUSIVE AND INALIENABLE JEWISH RIGHT TO THE WHOLE OF
ReplyDeleteTHE LAND OF ISRAEL:
at the Basle Session of the 20th Zionist Congress at Zurich(1937)
No Jew has the right to yield the rights of the Jewish People in Israel -
David Ben Gurion
(David Ben-Gurion was the first Prime Minister of Israel and widely hailed as the State's main founder).
"No Jew has the right to yield the rights of the Jewish People in Israel.
No Jew has the authority to do so.
No Jewish body has the authority to do so.
Not even the entire Jewish People alive today has the right to yield any part of Israel.
It is the right of the Jewish People over the generations, a right that under no conditions can be cancelled.
Even if Jews during a specific period proclaim they are relinquishing this right, they have neither the power nor the authority to deny it to future generations.
No concession of this type is binding or obligates the Jewish People. Our right to the country - the entire country - exists as an eternal right, and we shall not yield this historic right until its full and complete redemption is realized."
(David Ben Gurion, Zionist Congress, Basel, Switzerland, 1937.)
"No country in the world exists today by virtue of its 'right'.
All countries exist today by virtue of their ability to defend themselves against those who seek their destruction
As Yoram Dinstein, former rector of Law at Tel Aviv University and world authority on the international laws of war, notes, any confusion about whether the 4th Geneva Convention is not applicable in the West Bank aka Judea and Samaria is cleared up by Article 4 of the Convention (Dinstein 2009), which states: Persons protected by the Convention are those of a legitimate nation who, at a given moment and in any manner whatsoever, find themselves, in case of a conflict or occupation, in the hands of a Party to the conflict or Occupying Power of which they are not nationals. (Geneva Convention IV). Most of the Arab-Palestinians in Judea and Samaria aka West Bank holds a Jordanian passport and are considered Jordanians. Jordan King Hussein stated "Jordan is Palestine and Palestine is Jordan". This does not apply here to Israel, since Israel is a liberator of its own territory guaranteed under international treaties instituted after WWI which terms are enforced today and the future.
ReplyDeleteBy the fact that Israel liberated and conquered a territory that was inhabited by civilians who are not Israeli citizens (i.e. Arab Palestinians in the West Bank and holding Jordanian passports), this makes the Fourth Geneva Convention not applicable, and de jure, makes Israel’s control of the West Bank aka Judea and Samaria a liberated territory under international treaties with Israel's military control.
Israeli jurist Theodor Meron also concludes that “the application of the [4th Geneva] Convention should not be interpreted as the recognition of the status of Jordan in the West Bank. It must be remembered that, as a humanitarian convention par excellence, the Fourth Geneva Convention is concerned primarily with people, rather than territory; with human rights, rather than with legal questions pertaining to territorial status” (Meron 1979: 109). But again, since Judea and Samaria aka West Bank is Israel's territory under international treaties, it is not applicable here.
Furthermore, in how many cases of war and occupation are the sovereign rights to a particular land not disputed? Is Israel’s situation really that unique? It would appear to be a very narrow and ineffective interpretation of international law if the rights afforded to civilians under the 4th Geneva Convention are disregarded in every case when it cannot be determined which sovereign has legal ownership to the land under occupation. In this instance since Israel is only the liberator of its own territory under international treaties, there is no question that the rule do not apply.
If the Fourth Geneva Convention is not applicable in the West Bank aka Judea and Samaria, there is no question that Israeli settlements do not have to conform to Article 49(6) of the convention: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” Since Israel is a liberator of its own territory, it is not an occupier. Additionally when your read the terms of the Palestine Mandate under international law; it clearly states that the Jewish people have the right to settle anywhere in the Palestine Mandate. Anyone who obstructs those rights is violating the law and international treaties.
Shamir argues that this law only prevents the occupying power from forcing its own citizens into the territories it has conquered, i.e. in reaction to when Germany deported its Jewish citizens to the death camps in Poland and elsewhere, and not in cases of citizens voluntarily moving to the its own liberated occupied territory. Both Shamir’s interpretation of the wording of the law and the background of its formulation are completely valid under international treaties guarantying Jewish rights to settle anywhere in the Palestine Mandate.
First, such an interpretation implies that Article 49(6) is intended to protect the citizens of the occupying power, in this case Israeli citizens who are liberators of their own territory guaranteed by international treaties which is not an occupying power. However, the sole purpose of the 4th Geneva Convention is to protect the civilians living under occupation, not the citizens of the occupying power, who are not afforded any protection by the Convention. Since Israel is not an occupier under international treaty, but a liberator of its own territory, these do not apply to Israel.
ReplyDeleteSecond, the term “transfer” does not imply forced, as evidenced by another article in the Convention, Article 49(1), which forbids the deportation of civilians from the occupied territories, and uses the phrase “forcible transfer,” not simply the term “transfer,” as Article 49(6) does. Since it is Israel's territory under international treaties. Israel has the right to relocate people in order to ensure safety and security and provide a buffer to prevent and or reduce hostility and conflict.
Further, to quote Dinstein, the settler’s “voluntary cooperation in the transfer does not diminish from its character, pursuant to the sixth paragraph of Article 49, as long as the Occupying Power stands behind the project.” Since Israel is only the liberator of its own territory under international treaty, these do not apply to Israel.
Article 49(6) is always applicable as long as the occupying power is facilitating the transfer of its own citizens, whether forced or not. What Article 49 (6) aimed to prevent was not situations such as those in which Nazi Germany was deporting its Jewish citizens to the death camps, but instead Nazi Germany’s intention to transfer its ethnic German citizens into the Eastern European territories it conquered as part of its Lebensraum policy to alter the demographics of those territories. In this case, Israel is only a liberator of its own territory guaranteed by international treaties and therefore, it is not applicable to Israel.
This is not to compare in any way Nazi Germany with Israel’s settlement policy, but instead to illustrate how the voluntary transfer of citizens of the occupying power could be used to violate the human rights of the occupied, and thus was prohibited under Article 49(6). In this case, Israel is only a liberator of its own territory guaranteed by international treaties and therefore, this it is not applicable to Israel.
Furthermore, if one concedes that Israel’s rule over the territories is an occupation, then the settlement project is violating the most fundamental principle of international occupation law: that the occupying power may not unilaterally annex any territory it conquers. In this case, Israel is only a liberator of its own territory guaranteed by international treaties and therefore, it is not applicable to Israel and annexation is not required for you own territory.
When Israel declared its sovereignty and independence in 1948, there was no official annexation of the land within the armistice line once the Arabs were defeated and the war was over. You do not have to annex your own territory.
The Arab nations surrounding Israel gathered, the arms, the men had all been brought together to attack and destroy Israel, and the State of Israel was thus threatened with collective assault was itself the last sanctuary of a people which had seen six million of its sons exterminated by a more powerful Nazi dictator two decades before and the million Jewish families expelled from Arab lands of which the majority settled in Israel.
The world turned a blind eye when Jews were persecuted
When Israel declared its sovereignty and independence in 1948, there was no official annexation of the land within the armistice line once the Arabs were defeated and the war was over. You do not have to annex your own territory.
ReplyDeleteThe Arab nations surrounding Israel gathered, the arms, the men had all been brought together to attack and destroy Israel, and the State of Israel was thus threatened with collective assault was itself the last sanctuary of a people which had seen six million of its sons exterminated by a more powerful Nazi dictator two decades before and the million Jewish families expelled from Arab lands of which the majority settled in Israel.
The world turned a blind eye when Jews were persecuted
Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria are Jewish territory - No annexation is required.
If anything it may need to be re-incorporated or re-patriated and Israel’s sovereignty applied.
Let me pose an interesting scenario. If you had a country and it was conquered by various foreign powers over a period of time. After many years you have taken back you country and land in various defensive wars. Do you have to officially annex those territories? It was always your territory and by retaking control and possession of your territory it is again your original property and there is no need to annex it.
Jewish roots and rights to all the land of Greater Israel are stronger than ever!
“If I am turned out of hearth and home and remain outside one night, I am legally entitled to return the following day. If I suffer for ten, twenty, five thousand or fifty thousand nights, does my right of return stand in inverse relationship to the length of my exile? Quite the contrary; my right to return and recover my freedom becomes stronger in direct proportion to what I have endured, not by virtue of some abstract arithmetic, but because of the nights spent in exile, and because I want my children, to be spared a similar experience.”
YJ Draiman
P.S. It is abundantly clear to most observers that the rebuilt Jewish communities destroyed by the Arabs in 1948 and the Jewish settlements built in the liberated territories are legally established under international treaties and are permanent parts of the State of Israel.
British restrictions and blockade on Jewish immigration to Palestine 1938-1948 caused the death of over 2 million Jews trying to escape German extermination camps.
ReplyDeleteThe Arabs received over 12 million sq. km. of territory after WWI and the Jewish people receive their territory of Palestine aka The Land of Israel which had about 120,000 sq. km. The British in 1922 gave away in violation of the Mandate over 77% of the land in Palestine aka The Land of Israel allocated for the Jewish people to the Arabs as the State named Jordan of which 80% of the population is Arab-Palestinians. This is the Arab/Palestinian State and no other.
British actions in Palestine aka The Land of Israel during the Mandate 1918-1948 are the cause of the continued violence and terrorism in the Middle East. The British wanted to control the oil in the Middle East and they were willing and did cross anyone to accomplish their goals. In today’s time in history, nothing has changed.
In less than 20 years England and the rest of Europe will be controlled by Muslims with Sharia laws in place.
Prohibiting Jews for residing anywhere where the map of Mandate for Palestine territory of 1920 is a violation of International Law and the San Remo Treaty which was adopted by the League of Nations in 1920. There was also the 1919 Faisal Weizmann Agreement.
Any housing, factories, goods and services produced by Jews in the area that was designated as the Mandate for Palestine is granted by the International agreements and treaties of the 1918-1920, which are in affect for perpetuity.
Israel’s 2nd war of liberation of 1967 debunking the notion that Israel is an occupier of its own land.
WW2 Britain Blew Up Jewish Refugee Ships
ReplyDeleteA new book uncovers shocking secret attacks launched on ships bearing Holocaust survivors en route to Israel.
Andrew Roberts on the violent lengths to which post-war Britain went to appease oil-rich Arab states.
As Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, the pitiful remnants of History’s greatest crime, tried to make their way across an often hostile Europe at the end of the Second World War, toward at least a semblance of safety in the Holy Land, they had no shortage of problems with which to contend, including disease and malnutrition, Polish anti-Semitism, Soviet indifference, Allied bureaucracy, and Arab nationalism. Now we discover that they faced yet another peril in the shape of bombs planted on their transport ships by Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, better known as MI6.
A new book to be published next week entitled MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949, by the distinguished British historian Keith Jeffery, reveals the existence of Operation Embarrass, a plan to try to prevent Jews getting into Palestine in 1946-’48 using disinformation and propaganda but also explosive devices placed on ships. Nor is this some speculative spy story that can be denied by the authorities: Dr. Jeffrey’s book is actually, in their own words: “Published with the permission of The Secret Intelligence Service and the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.”
It’s shameful that Britain blew up humanitarian flotillas after the Holocaust, but now condemns Israel for halting politically inspired flotillas to Gaza.
When on June 1 this year the British government denounced as “completely unacceptable” the way that the Israelis landed troops on the Turkish flotilla to Gaza we did not know that its predecessor had done much the same, actually blowing up one ship and damaging two more vessels of a genuinely humanitarian flotilla that was trying to bring Jewish survivors of the Nazi death camps to their people’s ancient homeland.
roberts-british-attack—book-cover
The Secret History of MI6. By Keith Jeffery. 832 pages. Penguin Press HC.
Of course the hostility of the British establishment toward Jewish immigration into Palestine since long before the notorious 1939 White Paper on the subject is well-known—even King George VI wrote that year to say that he was “glad to think that steps are being taken to prevent these people leaving their country of origin”—nonetheless this is the first indication of the violent lengths to which post-war Britain was willing to go in order to appease the oil-rich Arab states of the region. For it now emerges that in late 1946 the Labor government of Clement Attlee asked MI6 for “proposals for action to deter ships masters and crews from engaging in illegal Jewish immigration and traffic,” adding, “Action of the nature contemplated is, in fact, a form of intimidation and intimidation is only likely to be effective if some members of the group of people to be intimidated actually suffer unpleasant consequences.” Among the options contemplated were “the discovery of some sabotage device, which had ‘failed’ to function after the sailing of a ship,” “tampering with a ship’s fresh water supplies or the crew’s food,” and “fire on board ship in port.” Sir Stewart Menzies, the chief of the SIS, suggested these could be blamed on an invented Arab terrorist group called The Defenders of Arab Palestine.
Operation Embarrass was therefore launched after a meeting held on February 14, 1947 between officials from MI6, the armed services, the Colonial Office and the Foreign Office, the last represented by William Hayter, the head of Foreign Office Services Liaison Department, a high-flier who later became ambassador to Moscow. I knew Sir William Hayter in later life, but needless to say he never breathed a word about this operation. In his defense, it must be said that Hayter did order MI6 to ensure that arson “must be arranged, if at all, when the ship is empty.”
The British Operation Embarrass team was told that “the primary consideration was to be that no proof could ever be established between positive action against this traffic and His Majesty’s Government [HMG].” A special communications network, code-named Ocean, was set up with a budget of £30,000 ($47,000), a great deal of money in 1947. The operation had three aspects: direct action against refugee ships, a “black” propaganda campaign, and a deception scheme to disrupt immigration from Black Sea ports. A team of former Special Operations Executive agents—with the cover story of a yachting trip—was sent to France and Italy with limpet bombs and timers. If captured, “they were under no circumstances to admit their connection with HMG” but instead claim to have been recruited in New York “by an anti-Communist organization formed by a group of international industrialists, mainly in the oil and aircraft industries,” i.e. to lay the blame on rich, right-wing, unnamed Americans. They were told that this cover “was their final line of defense and, even in the event of a prison sentence, no help could be expected from HMG.”
ReplyDeleteDuring the summer of 1947 and early 1948, five attacks were undertaken on ships in Italian ports, of which one was rendered “a total loss” and two others were damaged. Two other British-made limpet mines were discovered before they went off, but the Italian authorities did not find their country of origin suspicious, “as the Arabs would of course be using British stores.” Operation Embarrass even considered blowing up the Baltimore steamship President Warfield when in harbor in France, which later became famous in Israeli history as the “Exodus” ship that “launched a nation.”
The country that ought to be embarrassed by Operation Embarrass—indeed shamed—is Great Britain, which used explosives to try to stop truly humanitarian flotillas after the Holocaust, but now condemns embattled Israel for halting entirely politically inspired flotillas to Gaza despite her rights of legitimate self-defense. The depth of the animosity that Establishment Britain, especially the Foreign Office, felt toward the Jews of Palestine clearly went even further than we had ever imagined, and even 70 years later is by no means extinguished.
Jerusalem is the heart and soul of the Jewish people and the capital of Israel for eternity.”
ReplyDeleteFACT IS: Ever since the Jews entered the land of Israel in about 1300 BCE and King David made Jerusalem the capital of Israel more than 3,000 years ago; then King Solomon built the Jewish Temple, the city has played a central role in Jewish existence. The Western Wall in the Old City is the object of Jewish veneration and the focus of Jewish prayer. Three times a day and in daily blessings, for thousands of years, Jews have prayed “To Jerusalem, thy city, shall we return with joy,” and have repeated the Psalmist’s oath: “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.” Jerusalem “has known only two periods of true greatness, and these have been separated by 2,000 years. Greatness has only happened under Jewish rule,” a famous writer wrote in Jerusalem. “This is so because the Jews have loved her the most, and have remained constant in that love and devotion throughout the centuries of their dispersion. . . . It is the longest, deepest spiritual love affair in history.” “It is for three thousand years, Jerusalem has been the center of Jewish hope and longing. No other city has played such a dominant role in the history, culture, religion and consciousness of a people as has Jerusalem in the life of Jewry and Judaism. Throughout centuries of exile, Jerusalem remained alive in the hearts of Jews everywhere as the focal point of Jewish history, the symbol of ancient glory, spiritual fulfillment and modern renewal. The Jews for the past 2,000 years have celebrated holidays and observed fast days in memory of Jerusalem, the hope and aspiration to return to Jerusalem and rebuilt the Jewish Temple. At Jewish wedding ceremonies a dish is broken in memory of Jerusalem. This heart and soul of the Jewish people engenders the thought that if you want one simple word to symbolize all of Jewish history, that word would be ‘Jerusalem.’ ” “The Jewish people without Jerusalem; is like a human body without a soul”.
YJ Draiman
Philistines came according to historians about 1200 BC to the coast of the Eastern Med, today’s Gaza and parts of today’s Israel. They were seafarers and started to settle there in a region just some tiny areas more than today’s Gaza… Goliath was one of them.
ReplyDeleteThe story of King David who fought them when he was a youngster according to the Bible and got them later as his personal Guardians showed a bit the history. They came as enemies and started to become friends – most of them. Some were fought, some left to their home countries in the Med (possibly Crete). Most of them assimilated into the regions – mainly Judean tribes ……. NEVER DID HAVE THE PHILISTINES HAD THE REGION CONQUERED WHICH WAS NAMED LATER AFTER THEM.
Palestine is the Roman Emperors word for them. Roman Dictators used the term against the Jews-Israelis in the in vain hope that the new name would destruct the Jewish self confidence and their wish to resettle a kingdom of their own again.
Later many used the term for regions by far too wide of the historian sites on which Philistines once settled as a tribe from about 1200 to about 800 BC. The word was abused even more than it was already abusively used by Romans ……
It became also extensively used by the later Conquerors – the Muslims for reasons of hiding them behind this word – not to be seen as the cruel and bloody emperors and brutal colonialists and enslavers they became in the region.
That Israelis liberated and won land back is a bit as if North American Indian tribes did win land of their ancestors back from the Invaders.
Israel was never historical homeland of main Arab tribes.
Arabs mainly dwelled on the Arab Peninsula only some tribes did settle in the Southern regions of Israel….. They even had taken the religions of the regions they came into …… all this changed with the Muslim invasions.
The first Muslim invasion was as early as 628 AD. Which means that this raid happened in Mohammed’s lifetime?