Who Stole the Jewish Land
of Israel?
Why 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.
So 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?
If 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
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 some of 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.
ReplyDeleteYJ Draiman
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).
The U.N. cannot create states, it can only recommend a non-binding with no legal standing, and so can other nations only recommend and not create a state that never existed before in history. If they want an Arab-Palestinian state, it already exists; it is Jordan which has taken about 80% of Jewish allocated land.
ReplyDeleteIn 1947, the UN Gen. Assembly passed Resolution 181 recommending the partition of Palestine, a non-binding with no legal standing (which was not accepted by the Arabs makes it null and void). This did not create the State of Israel. The General Assembly does not create countries, make laws, or alter the Mandates (Mandates were a big brother system for setting up independent countries to be led by its native indigenous populations, with historic national connections to the territories). The Partition plan was merely a non-binding recommendation.
The resolution also violated Article 5 of the Mandate for Palestine and therefore it also violated Article 80 of the UN Charter. It was therefore an illegal non-binding resolution with no legal standing.
What we call the State of Israel, along with her "legal" borders, was established in April 1920 with the San Remo Resolution of 1920 and the 1919 Faisal Weizmann Agreement. Palestine was created for the first time in history as a country. It was created as the reconstitution of the Jewish National Home. The Partition Plan in 1947 was the result of a 1/4 century of illegal British policy (The English were a trustee for the Jewish people, but they violated that trust. the British wanted to control the Oil in the Middle East, for that they betrayed the Jewish people) that ripped internationally protected Jewish rights from the Jewish People, as the British allowed hundreds of thousands of Arabs to pour across the border from Syria and Egypt into Palestine. When the British illegally restricted Jewish immigration into Palestine aka The Land of Israel from the 1930’s through the late 1940 they caused the deaths of million of Jewish people trying to escape German extermination camps.
The Jewish State's reconstitution was a fact 25 years before the UN existed. The Mandate was there to protect its survival, and it was terminated, not because the terms were completed, but because the British fled with their tails between their legs, and there was no one there to administer the Mandate.
Does anyone think that after the Ottoman Empire surrendered and relinquished its rights title and ownership to Palestine and other territories to the Allied powers after WWI and the Allied powers set up and established 21 Arab States on over 12 million sq. km. with a wealth of oil reserves and one Jewish State in all of Palestine, which is about 120,000 sq. km., but today Israel has about 21,000 sq. km.. The 21 Arab States doesn’t want to relinquish or redraw its boundaries and Israel does not want to concede any of its original boundaries set up in 1920 which included the whole Palestine Mandate. None of the Palestinian Mandate was allocated to the Arabs in the 1920 San Remo Treaty or by the 1919 Faisal Weizmann Agreement.
The U.N. and the other countries must take into account and address the expulsion of over a million Jewish families from the Arab countries and the confiscation of all their assets, personal valuables. businesses, homes and land owned by Jewish people in the Arab countries, totaling over 120,000 sq. km. for over 2,600 years (6 times the size of Israel) valued in the trillions dollars and other personal assets confiscated by the Arabs countries.
The Jewish people resettled the million Jewish refugees from the Arab countries. It is about time the Arab countries that terrorized and expelled the million Jewish families and confiscated their land and assets, must settle the Arab-Palestinian refugees once and for all without compromising Israel and bring about peace and tranquility to the region.
Neither the U.N. nor any Country in the world has the authority to create a state or dissolve a state, (check the U.N. charter and international law.)
“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!
Today, we hear a lot of talk about how Jerusalem should be split, – one half surrendered to Muslims, while the other half remains a mixed Muslim/Jewish city in Israel. If this is the appropriate diplomatic way of turning back the clock, and ensuring peace between Muslims and Jews, then why not try out this solution with Medina first–a city that was originally Jewish?
ReplyDeleteAlthough the fact is little publicized, the Arab world’s second holiest city, Medina, was one of the allegedly “purely Arab” cities that actually was first settled by Jewish tribes. 1 History shows that Judaism was already well established in Medina two centuries before Muhammad’s birth.
On page 40, of his book “Arabs In History”, Bernard Lewis writes:
“The city of Medina, some 280 miles north of Mecca, had originally been settled by Jewish tribes from the north, … The comparative richness of the town attracted an infiltration of pagan Arabs who came at first as clients of the Jews and ultimately succeeded in dominating them. Medina, or, as it was known before Islam, Yathrib, had no form of stable government at all. The town was tom by the feuds of the rival Arab tribes of Aus and Khazraj, with the Jews maintaining an uneasy balance of power. The latter, engaged mainly in agriculture and handicrafts, were economically and culturally superior to the Arabs, and were consequently disliked…. as soon as the Arabs had attained unity through the agency of Muhammad they attacked and ultimately eliminated the Jews.”
The number of Jews in Medina swelled following the Roman invasion of Israel – the subsequent expulsion of its Jewish population, and from Jews fleeing persecution in Persia2. These refugees were assimilated into the three major Jewish tribes in Medina: the Banu Nadir, the Banu Quynuqua, and the Banu Quraiza. When these Jews resettled in Medina, they took with them a superior knowledge of agriculture, irrigation, and industry. Homeless Jewish refugees in the course of a few generations became large landowners in the country. In addition, the refugees who had come from Israel quickly became the controllers of its finance and trade. This new Jewish prosperity also quickly became a direct challenge to the Arabs of the region, particularly the Quraysh at Mecca (of which Mohammad was a member) and other Arab tribes in Medina.
According to Alfred Guillaume,
At the dawn of Islam the Jews dominated the economic life of the Hijaz [Arabia]. They held all the best land … ; at Medina they must have formed at least half of the population. There was also a Jewish settlement to the north of the Gulf of Aqaba…. What is important is to note that the Jews of the Hijaz made many proselytes [or converts] among the Arab tribesmen.5
To add fuel to this fire, the Jews, strong in their faith in G-d, refused to accept Mohammad’s claims to be the final prophet. In response, a precedent was established by Muhammad among Arab-Muslims to expropriate that which belonged to the Jews of Medina.
YJ Draiman
Today, we hear a lot of talk about how Jerusalem should be split, – one half surrendered to Muslims, while the other half remains a mixed Muslim/Jewish city in Israel. If this is the appropriate diplomatic way of turning back the clock, and ensuring peace between Muslims and Jews, then why not try out this solution with Medina first–a city that was originally Jewish?
ReplyDeleteAlthough the fact is little publicized, the Arab world’s second holiest city, Medina, was one of the allegedly “purely Arab” cities that actually was first settled by Jewish tribes. 1 History shows that Judaism was already well established in Medina two centuries before Muhammad’s birth.
On page 40, of his book “Arabs In History”, Bernard Lewis writes:
“The city of Medina, some 280 miles north of Mecca, had originally been settled by Jewish tribes from the north, … The comparative richness of the town attracted an infiltration of pagan Arabs who came at first as clients of the Jews and ultimately succeeded in dominating them. Medina, or, as it was known before Islam, Yathrib, had no form of stable government at all. The town was tom by the feuds of the rival Arab tribes of Aus and Khazraj, with the Jews maintaining an uneasy balance of power. The latter, engaged mainly in agriculture and handicrafts, were economically and culturally superior to the Arabs, and were consequently disliked…. as soon as the Arabs had attained unity through the agency of Muhammad they attacked and ultimately eliminated the Jews.”
The number of Jews in Medina swelled following the Roman invasion of Israel – the subsequent expulsion of its Jewish population, and from Jews fleeing persecution in Persia2. These refugees were assimilated into the three major Jewish tribes in Medina: the Banu Nadir, the Banu Quynuqua, and the Banu Quraiza. When these Jews resettled in Medina, they took with them a superior knowledge of agriculture, irrigation, and industry. Homeless Jewish refugees in the course of a few generations became large landowners in the country. In addition, the refugees who had come from Israel quickly became the controllers of its finance and trade. This new Jewish prosperity also quickly became a direct challenge to the Arabs of the region, particularly the Quraysh at Mecca (of which Mohammad was a member) and other Arab tribes in Medina.
According to Alfred Guillaume,
At the dawn of Islam the Jews dominated the economic life of the Hijaz [Arabia]. They held all the best land … ; at Medina they must have formed at least half of the population. There was also a Jewish settlement to the north of the Gulf of Aqaba…. What is important is to note that the Jews of the Hijaz made many proselytes [or converts] among the Arab tribesmen.5
To add fuel to this fire, the Jews, strong in their faith in G-d, refused to accept Mohammad’s claims to be the final prophet. In response, a precedent was established by Muhammad among Arab-Muslims to expropriate that which belonged to the Jews of Medina.
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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
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 pamphlets
First Publish: 9/1/2008, 5:34 PM
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
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Click here for the 1925 Temple Mount Guide.
http://www.raptureforums.com/IsraelMiddleEast/guide.pdf
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).
Supreme Muslim Council: Temple Mount is Jewish
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.
https://www.templeinstitute.org/1950-wakf-temple-mount-guide.pdf
A link to the document can be found here:http://www.templeinstitute.org/1925-wakf-temple-mount....
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”
ReplyDeleteClipping from Saint Petersburg Times (approximately 1946)
Washington - (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 aka The Land of Israel 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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P.S. Israel must state and issue an ultimatum to the Wakf and the Arabs, that any hostile action on Temple Mount will force Israel to annul the Wakf's authority and Israel is taking over full control of Temple Mount. It must be zero tolerance for violence.
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 aka The Land of Israel 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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Israel must state and issue an ultimatum to the Wakf and the Arabs, that any hostile action on Temple Mount will force Israel to annul the Wakf's authority and Israel is taking over full control of Temple Mount. It must be zero tolerance for violence.
Mahmoud Abbas has no right to demand anything, he belongs in jail.
ReplyDeleteThe Arabs cannot be trusted – Mahmoud Abbas aka Abu Mazen the financier of the Munich Olympics massacre and mastermind of the Achille Lauro, a multiple Murderer and convicted murderer on the run. (Where-ever the Muslims are in the world there is upheaval, killing and destruction).
It is time to put Mahmoud Abbas in jail where he belongs and charge him with crimes against humanity and murder charges for being complicit in terror attacks and the death of many people and inciting terror and 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
If you are to question Israel's sovereignty west of the Jordan River, You have to question Jordan's sovereignty east of the Jordan river and the other 21 Arab states established after WWI on over 12 million sq. km. with a wealth of oil reserves. All those states were established by the same Supreme Allied powers that established Israel in the San Remo Treaty of 1920
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Here are overlooked facts in the current Middle East situation; these were compiled by a Christian university professor. It makes sense and it’s not slanted. Jew and non-Jew –it doesn’t matter. Thank You.
1. Nationhood and Jerusalem. Israel became a nation in 1312 B.C.E., more than two thousand years before the rise of Islam. King Solomon build the Jewish Temple on Temple Mount.
2. Arab refugees in Israel began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967, two decades after the establishment of the modern State of Israel.
3. Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 B.C.E., the Jews have had dominion over the land for one thousand years with a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,700 years.
4. The only Arab dominion since the conquest in 635 C.E. lasted no more than 22 years.
5. For over 3,500 years, Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital. Jerusalem has never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Even when the Jordanians occupied Jerusalem, they never sought to make it their capital, and Arab leaders did not come to visit.
6. Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in Tanach (Bible), the Jewish Holy Scriptures. Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Koran.
7. King David founded the city of Jerusalem. Mohammed never came to Jerusalem.
8. Jews pray facing Jerusalem. Muslims pray with their backs toward Jerusalem.
9. Arab and Jewish Refugees: In 1948 the Arab refugees were encouraged to leave Israel by Arab leaders promising to purge the land of Jews. Sixty-eight percent left without ever seeing an Israeli soldier.
10. The million Jewish refugees were forced to flee from Arab lands due to Arab brutality, persecution and pogroms, their land and assets confiscated.
11. The number of Arab refugees who left Israel in 1948 is estimated to be around 630,000. The number of Jewish refugees from Arab lands is estimated to be the about a million.
12. Arab refugees were INTENTIONALLY not absorbed or integrated into the Arab lands to which they fled, despite the vast Arab territory. Out of the 100,000,000 refugees since World War II, theirs is the only refugee-group in the world that has never been absorbed or integrated into their own peoples’ lands. Jewish refugees were completely absorbed into Israel, a country no larger than the state of New Jersey.
13. The Arab – Israeli Conflict: The Arabs are represented by eight separate nations, not including the Palestinians.
There is only one Jewish nation.
The Arab nations initiated all five wars and lost.
Israel defended itself each time and won.
14. The P.L.O.’s Charter and Hamas Charter still calls for the destruction of the State of Israel. Israel has given the Palestinians most of the West Bank land, autonomy under the Palestinian Authority, which has violated all the agreements and promotes hate.
15. Under Jordanian rule, Jewish holy sites were desecrated and the Jews were denied access to places of worship. Under Israeli rule, all Muslim and Christian sites have been preserved and made accessible to people of all faiths.
16. The U.N. Record on Israel and the Arabs: of the 175 Security Council resolutions passed before 1990, 97 were directed against Israel.
17. Of the 690 General Assembly resolutions voted on before 1990, 429 were directed against Israel.
18. The U.N was silent while 58 Jerusalem Synagogues were destroyed by the Jordanians.
19. The U.N. was silent while the Jordanians systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives.
20. The U.N. was silent while the Jordanians enforced an apartheid-like policy of preventing Jews from visiting the Temple Mount and the Western Wall.
I can go on and list some more.
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 the convicted terrorist and his Arab 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 to other Arab countries.
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.
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 (and after the Feisal Weitzman Agreement of January 3, 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”.
This 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.
ReplyDeleteThe 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.
YJ Draiman
In 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).
It 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.
Consequently, 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.
ReplyDeleteWith 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].
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 British in 1922 gave away in violation of the Mandate 77% of the land in Palestine 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 Palestinian State and no other.
British actions in Palestine 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.
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
Arab “Palestinians from the Arab “Jordanians”. These are one and the same people even though Jordan is ruled by a Hashemite Arab most of the Arabs living in Jordan are “Palestinian” Arabs (around 85%) As you know both “Palestinians” and “Jordanians” were a created people. When the British mandate criminally partitioned 77% of Israel to create the Kingdom of Jordan…the Arab “Palestinians” who were fighting for their own land were meant to move to this new country but the Arab league had their own designs for the remainder of the Jewish lands made sure that a large presence of the so call “Palestinians” remained in Israel to continue their never ending quest to drive the Jews out of all of Israel. The best solution to end the conflict is for the world to recognize that there is already a Palestine east of the Jordan river and to allow to move the “Arab Palestinians” out of all Eretz Yisrael to Jordan-Palestine.
ReplyDeleteLove thy neighbor as you love yourself.
ReplyDeleteOne of the Jewish commandments is: Love thy neighbor as you love yourself.
Just because we have different opinion and or practices does not mean we cannot respect each other and get along.
You can accomplish more with honey than with vinegar,
It is easy to criticize. It is a lot harder to be tolerant and look for the good attributes a person has.
A strong Israel is a Unified Israel. A divided Israel is a weak Israel.
The Jewish Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed due to unfounded hatred between the Jewish people.
Have a happy and healthy New Year to all.
May we learn to live in peace tranquility and harmony.
International law fully recognizes the Jewish people’s claim to Jerusalem, where they have historical roots dating back over 3,000 years and have been the largest ethnic group in the city since 1820.
ReplyDeleteErnst Frankenstein, a British authority on international law said, for example, that the Jewish people have a right to their ancestral homeland and ancient capital city in Jerusalem based on the fact that the Jewish people never relinquished their historic claims to the area.
Here is some information that you need to know about the Arab/Palestinians.
There never has been, there is not now and there never will be a country called "Palestine."
The Arab/Palestinians/Moslems 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/Moslem dominated countries spread out over a few millions square miles of territory, 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 ejected close to a million Jewish people from their countries and confiscated their homes and assets, about a third of the Jewish people died while leaving the Arab countries.
The Arab/Moslems 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.
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 1922 and ratified by the League of Nations and signed by 51 member states.
Jordan is the Arab-Palestinian State - The land originally allocated to the Jewish people,
The British violated the agreement and gave it to the Arabs.
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
The Arab-Palestinians have a state (on Jewish land), it is called Jordan, which about 80% of its citizens are Arab-Palestinians citizens and possess a Jordanian citizenship. After WWI, while the British as trustee for the Jewish people managed the Mandate for Palestine as trustee, the British violated the trust and created The State of Jordan for the Arabs in the early 1920’s. The British took about 80% of Jewish allocated land which included most of the east Bank of the Jordan River under the San Remo Treaty of 1920 which adopted the Balfour Declaration of 1917 this was confirmed by the 1920 Treaty of Sevres and Lausanne and the British gave it to the Arabs, in violation of the treaty (including the 1919 Faisal Weizmann Agreement).
ReplyDeleteThe Arab-Palestinians do not want a state; they have to date stated that they are only interested in the destruction of Israel. Their Charters, Schooling and Media (brainwash) educates and promotes hate, terror and violence towards the Jewish State. An Arab-Palestinian State would have to act responsibly and abide by world criteria of a responsible state, which they cannot adhere to, no matter what concession they receive.
YJ Draiman
Peace and coexistence between Israel and its Arab neighbors would be a dream comes true!
ReplyDeletePeace and coexistence between Israel and its Arab neighbors would be a dream come true!
I 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
Tell the United States and other countries to mind its own business and take care of business in the USA.
ReplyDeleteDo not dictate to Israel what it should do or not do.
Why doesn’t the United States give the land back to the American Indians and the Mexicans?
Greater Israel is not occupied territory it is the liberated land of the Jewish people and has been for over 3000 years.
Most of the Arabs living in Israel were brought in by the Jewish agriculture industry to work the fields in the 1800 thru early 1900. Those Arabs stayed in Israel.
The Arabs never had a country/State on Jewish territory except what was fraudulently taken from them by the British and given to Jordan as the new Arab-Palestinian state in violation of international agreements, the 1919 Faisal Weizmann Agreement and the League of Nations vote after WWI. The Arabs terrorized and expelled over a million Jewish families from their countries and confiscated all their assets including businesses, homes and over 120,000 sq. km. of Jewish owned land for over 2,500 years; most of those expelled Jewish families have been resettled in Israel and comprise over half the population, let the Arabs in Greater Israel resettle in those properties or the 12 million sq. km. with a wealth of oil reserves the Arabs received after WWI or Jordan and leave Israel. Stop the Arab false deceptive information about Israel.
End the Unjust Arab Occupation of Jewish Land – The Qur’an 17:104 – states the land belongs to the Jewish people
YJ Draiman
Benzion Netanyahu and the All Important UN Clause to Save the Jewish State
ReplyDeleteBenzion Netanyahu, who died Monday in Jerusalem at the age of 102, has been widely scrutinized this week for his myriad contributions to the history of Zionism in Israel and the United States. Yet arguably the most important one has been overlooked. After World War II, Benzion Netanyahu, along with Irgun activist Peter Bergson, nephew of Mandatory Palestine Chief Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, and liberal American Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, drafted an article for inclusion in the United Nations Charter that could yet save the Jewish state.
The article became known as the "Palestine clause" for the protection it afforded to the right of Jewish settlement throughout the Land of Israel west of the Jordan River. Article 80 extended the guarantees to Jews afforded by the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine following World War I. The Mandate had recognized "the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine" and "the legitimacy of grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country." Jews were guaranteed "the right of close settlement" throughout Palestine.
But where was "Palestine"? According to the Mandate, it comprised the land east and west of the Jordan River, stretching from Iraq to the Mediterranean. Jewish settlement rights in Palestine were limited only in one respect: Great Britain, the Mandatory Trustee, was empowered to "postpone" or "withhold" the right of Jews to settle east — but not west — of the Jordan River. To reward the Hashemite sheikh, Abdullah, for his wartime assistance, the British colonial secretary, Winston Churchill, removed the land east of the river, comprising three-quarters of Mandatory Palestine, to create the kingdom of Trans-Jordan.
No Jews would be permitted to settle there, but the internationally guaranteed right of Jewish settlement throughout truncated Palestine west of the river was preserved. It was that right that Article 80 secured after the expiration of the League of Nations. It explicitly protected the rights of "any peoples" and "the terms of existing international instruments to which members of the United Nations may respectively be parties." The "Palestine clause" thereby guaranteed to Jews the right of "close settlement" throughout their remaining land west of the Jordan River, as the League Mandate had done.
With their careful draftsmanship Benzion Netanyahu, Peter Bergson, and Rabbi Wise extended League of Nations guarantees and secured United Nations authorization for Jewish settlement throughout the biblical homeland of the Jewish people. The legal right of Jewish settlement, except in the land siphoned off from Palestine as Trans-Jordan in 1922, has never been abrogated. Persistent efforts to undermine the legitimacy of settlements, according to international legal expert Julius Stone, have been nothing less than the "subversion ... of basic international law principles."
Article 80 was unaffected by the Six-Day War, which obliterated Jordanian control over Judea and Samaria (its "West Bank"). According to Security Council Resolution 242, Israel was permitted to administer that land until "a just and lasting peace in the Middle East was secured." That has not yet happened, to be sure, but even then, Israel would only be required, under its carefully drafted language, to withdraw its armed forces — civilians were not mentioned — from "territories," not from "the territories" or "all the territories."
ReplyDeleteThe "Jewish right of settlement," according to Eugene V. Rostow, then America's state undersecretary political affairs, "is equivalent in every way to the right of the existing [Palestinian] population to live there."
Article 80 has never been repealed. But Benzion Netanyahu's son, Prime Minister Netanyahu, seems inclined to disregard it. During his first term he signed the Hebron Protocol, confining 600 Jewish residents to a tiny ghetto in their ancient holy city. His critics may insist that he remains under the influence of his father's right-wing dogmatism, but abundant evidence suggests otherwise, which is no doubt why his father often expressed concern that his son wasn't tough enough to serve as prime minister.
Benzion Netanyahu helped to write the fundamental principle of Zionism, the right of Jewish settlement throughout the Land of Israel, into the United Nations Charter. How sadly ironic it would be if Benjamin Netanyahu, whose graveside eulogy paid loving tribute to his father's great gift to his sons of "a sense of responsibility to our nation," surrenders the land that his father tried with passionate determination and perseverance to preserve for the Jewish people.
In paragraphs 5, 6 and 7 of the 1920 Protocol of San Remo, we read: "No territory of Palestine will be sold or leased or held in any way under the control of the government of any foreign power." Or: "The Administration of Palestine, while ensuring that the rights of other parts of the population are not altered, shall facilitate Jewish immigration under suitable conditions and encourage, in cooperation with the Jewish Agency The dense settlement of Jews on the land, including State lands and waste lands not required for public purposes. "
ReplyDeleteTHE SAN REMO CONFERENCE April 1920
ReplyDeleteAfter ruling vast areas of Eastern Europe, South-western Asia, and North Africa for centuries, the Ottoman Empire lost all its Middle East territories during World War One. The Treaty of Sèvres of August 10, 1920 abolished the Ottoman Empire (Article 95 refers to Jewish rights) and obliged Turkey to renounce all rights over Arab Asia and North Africa. It was replaced by the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923.
The status of the Ottoman Empire’s former possessions was determined at a conference in San Remo, Italy on April 24-25, 1920 (which was a continuous of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference) attended by Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan and as an observer, the United States. Syria and Lebanon were mandated to France while Mesopotamia (Iraq) and the southern portion of the territory (Palestine) were mandated to Britain, with the charge to implement the 1917 Balfour Declaration.
While the Balfour Declaration was in itself not a legally enforceable document, it did become so by being en-trenched in international law when it was incorporated in its entirety in a resolution passed by the Conference on April 25. Significantly, the only change made to the wording of the Balfour Declaration was to strengthen Britain’s obligation to implement the Balfour Declaration. Lord Curzon described the San Remo resolution as “the Magna Carta of the Zionists”.
The conference’s decisions were confirmed unanimously by all 51 member states of the League of Nations on 24 July, 1922 and they were further endorsed by a joint resolution of the United States Congress in the same year.
The 1920 San Remo resolution received a further US endorsement in the Anglo-American Treaty on Palestine, signed by the US and Britain on 3 December, 1924, that incorporated the text of the Mandate for Palestine … The Senate ratified the treaty on 20 February, 1925 followed by President Calvin Coolidge on March 2, 1925 and by Great Britain on March 18, 1925.
Britain was specifically charged with giving effect to the establishment of the Jewish National Home in Palestine that was called for in the Balfour declaration that had already been adopted by all the other Allied Powers. Clearly, the legitimacy of Syria, Lebanon, Iraq & a Jewish state in Palestine as defined before the illegal creation of Transjordan on 78% of Palestine, all derive from the same binding international agreement at 1920 San Remo, that has never been abrogated.
In April 2010, a ceremony attended by politicians and others from Europe, the U.S. and Canada was held in San Remo at the house where the signing of the San Remo declaration took place in 1920. At the conclusion of the commemoration, the following statement was released:
“Reaffirming the importance of the San Remo Resolution of April 25, 1920 which included the Balfour Declaration in its entirety – in shaping the map of the modern Middle East, as agreed upon by the Supreme Council of the principal Allied Powers (Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and the United States acting as an observer), and later approved unanimously by the League of Nations; the Resolution remains irrevocable, legally binding and valid to this day. There was also the 1919 Faisal Weizmann Agreement.
“Emphasizing that the San Remo Resolution of 1920 recognized the exclusive national Jewish rights to the Land of Israel under international law, on the strength of the historical connection of the Jewish people to the territory previously known as Palestine aka :The Land of Israel”. … “Recalling that such a seminal event as the San Remo Conference of 1920 has been forgotten or ignored by the community of nations, and that the rights it conferred upon the Jewish people have been unlawfully dismissed, curtailed and denied. …. Asserting that a just and lasting peace, leading to the acceptance of secure and recognized borders between all States in the region, can only be achieved by recognizing the long established rights of the Jewish people under international law.”
THE BRITISH MANDATE OVER PALESTINE
ReplyDeleteAs stated above, the San Remo Conference decided to place Palestine under British Mandatory rule making Britain responsible for giving effect to the Balfour declaration that had been adopted by the other Allied Powers. The resulting “Mandate for Palestine,” was an historical League of Nations document that laid down the Jewish legal right to settle anywhere in Palestine and the San Remo Resolution together with Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations became the basic documents on which the Mandate for Palestine was established.
The Mandate’s declaration of July 24, 1922 states unambiguously that Britain became responsible for putting the Balfour Declaration, in favor of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, into effect and it confirmed that recognition had 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.
It is highly relevant that at that time the West Bank and parts of what today is Jordan were included as a Jewish Homeland. However, on September 16, 1922, the British divided the Mandate territory into Palestine, west of the Jordan and Transjordan, east of the Jordan River, in accordance with the McMahon Correspondence of 1915. Transjordan became exempt from the Mandate provisions concerning the Jewish National Home, effectively removing about 78% of the original territory of the area in which a Jewish National home was to be established in terms of the Balfour Declaration and the San Remo resolution as well as the British Mandate.
This action violated not only Article 5 of the Mandate which required the Mandatory to be responsible for seeing that no Palestine territory shall be ceded or leased to, or in any way placed under the control of the Government of any foreign Power but also article 20 of the Covenant of the League of Nations in which the Members of the League solemnly undertook that they would not enter into any engagements inconsistent with the terms thereof.
Article 6 of the Mandate stated that the Administration of Palestine, while ensuring that the rights and position of other sections of the population are not prejudiced, shall facilitate Jewish immigration under suitable conditions and shall encourage, in co-operation with the Jewish agency referred to in Article 4, close settlement by Jews on the land, including State lands and waste lands not required for public purposes.
Nevertheless in violation of article 6, in a 1939 White Paper Britain limited Jewish immigration from Europe, a move regarded by Zionists as betrayal of the terms of the mandate, especially in light of the increased persecution of Jews in Europe. In response, Zionists organized Aliyah Bet, a program of illegal immigration into Palestine.
CONCLUSION
ReplyDeleteThe frequently voiced complaint that the state being offered to the Palestinians comprises only 22 percent of Palestine is obviously invalid. The truth is exactly the reverse. From the above history it is obvious that the territory on both sides of the Jordan was legally designated for the Jewish homeland by the 1920 San Remo Conference, mandated to Britain, endorsed by the League of Nations in 1922, affirmed in the Anglo-American Convention on Palestine in 1925 and confirmed in 1945 by article 80 of the UN. Yet, 77% of this territory was excised from the territory in May 1923 when, in violation of the mandate and the San Remo resolution, Britain gave autonomy to Transjordan (now known as Jordan) under as-Sharif Abdullah bin al-Husayn.
Furthermore, as the San Remo resolution has never been abrogated, it was and continues to be legally binding between the several parties who signed it. It is therefore obvious that the legitimacy of Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and a Jewish state in Palestine all derive from the same international agreement at San Remo.
In essence, when Israel entered the West Bank and Jerusalem in 1967 it did not occupy territory to which any other party had title. While Jerusalem and the West Bank, (Judea and Samaria), were illegally occupied by Jordan in 1948 they remained in effect part of the Jewish National Home that had been created at San Remo and in the 1967 6-Day War Israel, in effect, recovered territory that legally belonged to it. To quote Judge Schwebel, a former President of the International Court of Justice, “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.
A very small list of other authoritative experts who have declared Israel’s presence in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan to be legal, include 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. Seehttp://www.2nd-thoughts.org/id45.html
Jacques Gauthier, 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.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125049#.TkAg4mGuySo
"Between 1891 and 1894, Baron Edmond James de Rothschild purchased nearly 80,000 dunams (30 miles sq.) of land consisting of 16 villages in southern Syria for Jewish settlement."
ReplyDeleteNote. The land was legally purchased. "Most of the land was situated in the eastern Golan and now lies a few kilometers from the 1967 lines, inside Syrian controlled territory. The parcels of land straddled both sides of the Nahr al-Allan. Over the years attempts to settle these lands was only partly successful and it remained sparsely populated by Jews. . . . "In 1899, the Pasha of Damascus expelled the Jews from all of Rothschild's estates.[50] Between 1904–08, a group of Crimean Jews settled in the Beth-saida Valley, initially as tenants of a Kurdish proprietor with the prospects of purchasing the land, but the arrangement faltered.[51][52] Jewish settlement in the region petered out over time, either due to Arab hostility and Turkish bureaucracy, disease or economic difficulties.[53] In 1921–1930, during the French Mandate, the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association (PJCA) obtained the deeds to the Rothschild estate and continued to manage it, collecting rents from the Arab peasants living there.[46] In 1944, the Syrian Land Settlement Campaign refused to recognize the foreign owned PJCA as the legal owners of the land and the Syrian government confiscated it without compensation on the grounds that "it was contrary to Syrian policy to allow Jews to own land in Syria."[46] The JNF still lays claim to the land.[46]
Mr. Justice Brandeis was perfectly correct — it was indeed a flagrant violation of the 1922 Palestine Mandate of the League of Nations to bar Jews from entry into (and settlement in) “Eretz Israel.” During the British period (1922-1948), “Eretz Israel” was the official Hebrew-language term for Western Palestine, i.e. all the land west of the Jordan River. Still with legal effects today, the 1922 Palestine Mandate of the League of Nations is akin to a multilateral treaty that explicitly recognizes “the historical connection” of the Jewish People to Palestine and calls for “close settlement by Jews on the land” everywhere west of the Jordan River.
ReplyDeleteBut, that is far from the complete story. Between 1917 and 1923, a series of declaration, resolutions, and treaties had explicitly recognized the Jewish People’s pre-existing “historical connection” to Palestine. This was tantamount to international recognition of the aboriginal rights of the Jewish People. Already in 1799 Napoleon Bonaparte had issued a proclamation recognizing that the Jewish People is “the rightful heir” to Palestine and inviting Jews to hasten to return to their ancestral homeland.
Jewish law (halacha) has always recognized the Jewish People’s right to its aboriginal homeland, where a specifically “Jewish” People was born some 26 centuries ago. From that time until today, there has never been a single year when some then self-identified “Jews” were absent from their aboriginal homeland, where today they are once again the majority of the local population.
Among the distinct, self-identified Peoples now living in a country or region, the one with the best claim to be aboriginal is “the” People which was there first in time. Without reference to numbers, this now existing aboriginal People is distinguished from the other current local Peoples which subsequently either were formed in the land (indigenous) or came there via conquest, migration and settlement.
For example, the Indian tribes in Canada are commonly called “the First Nations.” They are still the aboriginal Peoples there, even though some of these tribes now number only a few hundred individuals. Their status as “first in time” is not lost because they are now just a fraction of Canada’s population.
ReplyDeleteLike the First Nations, the Jewish People for more than two millennia has always had the strongest claim to be “the” aboriginal People in its ancestral homeland — though for most of those centuries, Jews there were but a small percentage of the inhabitants. Nor is this persistent Jewish claim to be “the” aboriginal People there weakened because the majority of Jews have at various times lived elsewhere.
Aboriginal rights are not invariably minority rights. However, in a minority context, aboriginal rights significantly contrast with majority rights, and limit the right of the current majority to decide all matters without regard to the aboriginal minority. This reminds us that “majority rules” is not a universal moral, political or legal principle that invariably applies to all subject matter, under all circumstances, and at all times.
Consistent with the usual minimum content of aboriginal rights, Jews have always claimed, inter alia, the right to visit and/or dwell in their ancestral homeland. And, they have regularly done so for more than two thousand years. Across the centuries, some then self-identified “Jews” always lived in their homeland; and some other Jews, whether from the Mideast or abroad, persistently perceived a duty and desire to join them there. For close to two millennia, first Christianity and then also Islam — as kindred Abrahamic faiths — generally understood the broader context in which the Jewish People had a special connection to the land of its birth. Thus, minority status there did not in itself cancel these key aboriginal rights of the Jewish People.
The Jewish People’s aboriginal rights make it clear that Jews have a right to enter into (and live in) “Eretz Israel.” This is something that should always be remembered when objections are now raised to Jews settling the land. Whether a thousand years ago or today, we should not confuse Jews returning to live with other Jews in the aboriginal homeland of the Jewish People with the 17th-century Pilgrim Fathers who went to build English “settlements” in America where they had neither native kin nor ancestors.
And, the foregoing is what I call a real discussion about law.
Philistines (Canaanites) vs Palestine (Arab)?
ReplyDeletePART 1
Basically based on the historical account modern Gaza Strips (Gaza) or ''People of Philistines disappeared distinct & the modern Philistines Pagan or Philistine Pagan today is does not exist'' (do not confuse with Palestine Arab)
The first government of this land was belong to Jewish people and ruled by King David Empire and so on. If we look on the historical record and political record we may see that there is no such thing is Israeli-occupied territories.
Here is the fact:
King David Empire covers few part of Modern Egypt, part of Modern Syria and part of Modern Jordan and half of Modern Lebanon. Means the Jewish people has DE FACTO to reestablish State of Israel after the ancient kingdom of Judah/Israel conquered by the political power as stated above regardless the ancient borders. The Arab or other country claim that the Israel was stolen from the Palestinian ... the international community also claim that the state of Israel has violated many international laws, including United Nations is DE JURE.
Let's look at the Historical & Political record shall we?
Almost 2,000 years ago, the Roman Emperor Hadrian cursed the Jewish People and decreed that Judea should be henceforth called "Palestine" after the Philistines, an ancient enemy of Israel that had disappeared from the world's stage more than 600 BCE years earlier. It was his final twist of the knife and legacy after wars, massacres, persecutions, and exiles that had largely extinguished the Jewish presence from Judea.
PART 2
ReplyDeleteThe Invention of Palestine by ''Pagan Roman Emperor Hadrian'' as a Psychological Weapon for Conquering Eretz Yisrael'. As explained in the film, many Israelis and lovers of Zion have accepted this misnaming and mis-identification. Hadrian's ancient curse now threatens Israel's very existence. Israel's success and endurance and the world's hope for peace in the 21st century, demands that the deceit and danger of a Palestinian state must be exposed and avoided. It is our fervent hope that Hadrian's Curse will expose the historical truth.
The Secret All the Arabs Know
At the Annapolis Conference, George Bush spoke about his vision regarding the virtues of two nations for two peoples. One of those peoples has a clear identity –– the Jewish People. Yet it would be interesting to know the identity of that second people: Already in 1977, one of the central spokesman of that "second people", a member of P.L.O. leadership, Zahir Muhsein, the leader of the al-Sa'iqa Organization, revealed the truth in an interview to the Dutch newspaper Trouw: "The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism for tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa. While as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. "Only a means for continuing our struggle against the State of Israel," in Muhsein's words.
Part 3
A frauds so successful that even George Bush can be found seeking a state for that fraud!
Do you think Zahir Muhsein is alone? This transparent fraud about the so-called existence of Palestine is revealed to us by all the Arabs' leaders:
In 1974, the late Syrian President, Hafez al-Assad, declared: "It would be fitting for us to mention to the responsible Israeli authorities that we view Palestine not just as an inseparable part of the Arab nation, but as a part of Southern Syria." In 1987, he reiterated himself at a conference in Amman, "A country named 'Palestine' has never existed." Jordanian King Hussein responded, "The appearance of the national Palestinian persona serves as a response to Israel's claim that Palestine is Jewish."
Yet the prize goes to Arafat who in 1970, with candid simplicity, told the reporter Arianna Palazzi: "The question of borders doesn't interest us... From the Arab standpoint, we mustn't talk about borders. Palestine is nothing but a drop in an enormous ocean. Our nation is the Arabic nation that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea and beyond it..... The P.L.O. is fighting Israel in the name of Pan-Arabism.
All the same, there is nothing like the testimony of the founder of the P.L.O. himself, Ahmed Shukari. Already in 1956 he proclaimed from the podium of the U.N., as the Arab League's ambassador there, that "such a creature as Palestine does not exist at all.
Incorrect, the Jewish state was re-founded by the Supreme Allied Powers and the British after the previous occupier of the land, the Ottoman Empire, teamed up the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.
ReplyDeleteThis is unless you feel that the Allies in WW1 were the terrorists, and the Central Powers were the good guys.
As you can see from any historical map, boundaries have moved, been created and new countries established due to war. That's a historical fact.
From the Turks loss in the Great War, the Middle East was divided up by the winning side in the form of mandates, after old boundaries were discarded when the Ottomans had taken control of the region.
Many of the new mandates divided up different ethnic groups. The creation of Iraq for example, created a mix of Sunni, Shiite, and Kurds as well as splitting away the traditional lands in Kuwait. Syria was another nation formed and then split to create Lebanon, so the French would have a Christian nation in the region.
Palestine was created as a Jewish state when the other Middle East nations were created. The original borders included the country of Jordan in its borders.
The British illegally split Palestine aka The Land of Israel to appease Abdallah, who had sided with the Allies, and created an Arab state in Palestine, to be renamed Trans-Jordan. This is the original two state solution for Jews and Arabs. That area forbids Jews to own land, and Jews living in the region left for the new Palestine borders west.
ReplyDeleteThe reconstituted Jewish state of Palestine was once again split up and the state of Israel formed in 1948. This caused massive migration of Jews from Europe. As a side effect of this, they legally purchased land, displacing those that couldn't afford the land. No different than immigration in the USA, Canada, Britain and else were. Have a look at the USA, it was founded on immigration. Many people have been displaced all across the USA from people buying land. It does not matter that someone has been there for less generations, if they purchase a house that you can't afford, they live there. Perhaps you yourself are an immigrant, or from an immigrant family that displaced someone that's family lineage was a part of the creation of the USA. That's life.
Anti-Semitism was rampant around the period of WWII, as evident throughout Europe. After the war, the U.N. Partition plan for Palestine cut more Jewish land away for Arab land. At this time from the original split of the British Mandate, Jews were Palestinians, the Arab Palestinians to the east of the Jordan River were now called Jordanians, and Arabs living in Palestine were also called Palestinians like the Jews. Much like everyone in the USA is an American regardless of ethnicity.
The Arab Palestinians did not accept that there should be a Jewish region in the Middle East, and they did not recognize the 1947 U.N. partition plan. After the Jews renamed themselves from Arab Palestinians to Israelis, the Arab states attacked them. This included the other nations founded by the mandate process after WWI, as well as the Arab Palestinians who did not leave to Jordan as part of the two state solutions in the British mandate.
The new land that was to be Arab Palestine was not recognized by the Arabs, and war broke out with the intention to wipe out the Jews from the Middle East. Now, much like the borders of the world throughout history, war shaped the borders once again. As a result of the Israelis being successful in not being wiped out, they advanced their borders and now claimed rights over the Arab lands in the partition plan.
One last bone of contention is that you call the Palestinian people the indigenous ones, as if Jews aren't indigenous to the land. That claim goes against all historical fact, not to mention the Bible or the Koran. Jews, albeit not the Jewish immigrants from Europe, have been in the region since the beginning of antiquity and are the true indigenous people.
So my research suggests Israel is not founded on terror by terrorist groups.
As pointed out in some previous comments, the term “Palestine” derives from the “PLST” or Peleset, an Indo-European or Aegean people, one of many, who appeared in the historical record around 1177 BCE as described in the new book by Eric Cline about that very year.
ReplyDeleteIsrael already existed at that time since it is mentioned in the Merneptah Stele referring to a confrontation in around the year 1210 BCE. The writer using the 1020 BCE date may have been referring to the traditional date for the kingdom of Saul and not the origin of the Israelite people.
The northern kingdom of Israel was destroyed by the Assyrians in 722 BCE and not 740 BCE as mentioned in another comment. A few years later in 716 BCE, Sargon II relocated some Arabs to Samaria, the former capital of the kingdom, present day Nablus. This is the first mention of Arabs in the land. The first reference to them at all is from 853 by Shalmaneser III when Arabs using camels were part of an anti-Assyrian alliance which included Aramaeans from the cities of Damascus and Hamath (they had been enemies) and Israel under Ahab, husband of Jezebel in the time of Elijah.
The Philistines remained independent for a few more years before it to fell under Assyrian domination. It did intrigue with the still independent kingdom of Judah under Hezekiah against Assyria which really backfired when Sennacherib, Sargon’s successor, devastated the land in a campaign in 701.
BCE.
So one could say that for the last 2700 years, the land of Philistine/Palestine has not been an independent political entity and never really was since it became Muslim and Arab.
Israel was an independent political entity for awhile under the Maccabees and sought to be twice under Roman rule. so in that regard 1948 marks the first time in millennia that anyone in the land was independent. Perhaps one day, everyone there will be.
Together we will win, together we will stay
ReplyDeleteיחד ננצח, יחד נשאר
In the days of a storm, we will know to overcome
בימים של סערה, נדע להתגבר
And the hope that is in our hearts will go with us always
והתקווה שבלב תמיד תלך איתנו יחד
Only together we will win, together we will stay
רק יחד ננצח, יחד נשאר
In these days the silence speaks of a song
בימים בהם השקט מדבר שירה
And in these days of loud fire, we have no choice
ובימים של אש רועמת, אין לנו ברירה
Because we have a destiny together and a small land
כי לנו יש גורל אחד וארץ קטנה
And she is alone against the world
והיא לבד מול העולם
And needs only free love, and for us to remain here
וצריך רק אהבת חינם, להשאיר אותנו כאן
Together we will win, together we will stay
יחד ננצח, יחד נשאר
In these stormy days, we will know to overcome
בימים של סערה, נדע להתגבר
And the hope that is in our hearts will go with us always together
והתקווה שבלב תמיד תלך איתנו יחד
Only together we will will, together we will stay
רק יחד ננצח, ביחד נשאר
When it appears that all is fine, and we go back to separating
כשנדמה שכבר בסדר, חוזרים להיפרד
We don't learn any lessons and we add to our sins
לא לומדים אף פעם לקח ומכים על חטא
To our very little land, a thousand cycles
לארץ הקטנה שלנו, אלף מחזרים
And everyone wants her
והם רוצים אותה כולם
There is promise from the Creator of the World
אך יש הבטחה מבורא עולם,
To leave us here
להשאיר אותנו כאן
In these stormy days, we will know to overcome
בימים של סערה, נדע להתגבר
And the hope that is in our hearts will go with us always together
והתקווה שבלב תמיד תלך איתנו יחד
Only together we will will, together we will stay
רק יחד ננצח, ביחד נשאר
Am Yisrael Chai!
עם ישראל חי...
In these stormy days, we will know to overcome
בימים של סערה, נדע להתגבר
And the hope that is in our hearts will go with us always together
והתקווה שבלב תמיד תלך איתנו יחד
Only together we will will, together we will stay
רק יחד ננצח, ביחד נשאר
In 1967, many Egyptian Jews were detained, tortured, imprisoned, killed and Jewish homes confiscated. In Libya that year, the government "urged the Jews to leave the country," while permitting each to take one suitcase and the equivalent of $50.
ReplyDeleteIn 1970, the Libyan government issued new laws confiscating all the assets of Libya's Jews. No compensation was paid. Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi justified this on the grounds that "the alignment of the Jews with Israel, the Arab nations' enemy, has forfeited their right to compensation."
According to tradition, Syria's Jewish community had its origin during the reign of King David. At that time, David's general, Yoav, controlled the region of Aram-Zobah when he defeated both the Arameans and the Ammonites (2 Sam. 10).
While rabbinic tradition identifies this area as Aleppo, the largest city in modern Syria, the settlement likely existed in the southern part of the country. By the time the Romans established their kingdom in the region, both Aleppo and Damascus had sizeable Jewish communities.
Although Syria still had over 35,000 Jewish residents in 1948, when Israel declared its independence, today only about twenty elderly Jewish people remain in Damascus. The severe persecution and terror forced the entire Jewish population out of the country and many were relocated to Israel.
Despite being forced from their homeland, the worldwide Syrian Jewish population has reached 200,000.
These are just a few examples of what would became common measures throughout the Arab world - not to mention the pogroms and attacks on Jews and their institutions that drove a major part of the forced Jewish exodus.
THE ECONOMIC suffering on the part of the two refugee populations was equally lopsided.
According to the newly released study "The Palestinian Refugee Issue: Rhetoric vs. Reality" by former CIA and State Department Treasury official Sidney Zabludoff in the Jewish Political Studies Review, the value of assets lost by both refugee populations is strikingly uneven.
Zabludoff uses data from John Measham Berncastle, who in the early 1950's, under the aegis of the newly formed United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine (UNCCP), undertook the task of calculating the assets of the Palestinian refugees. Zabludoff calculates that their assets were worth $3.9 billion in today's currency.
The over a million Jewish refugees, being greater in number and more urban, had assets worth in the trillions of dollars in today’s currency.
On top of this equation, it must be taken into account that Israel returned over 90 percent of blocked bank accounts, safe deposit boxes and other items belonging to Arab/Palestinian refugees during the 1950's. This considerably diminishes the UNCCP calculations.
THESE FACTS are intentionally conveniently forgotten and not publicized, leaving the way open for Israel-bashers like Exeter University history Prof. Ilan Pappe to omit any mention of the Middle East's greatest ethnic cleansing of the Jews. The Arab/Muslim ethnic cleansing continues until today with millions of Christians and other religions forced to leave the Arab/Muslim countries.
ReplyDeleteHowever, a few recent events are clearing the world community's perception of this history. On April 1, the US Congress adopted Resolution 185, which for the first time recognizes Jewish refugees from Arab countries. It urges that the president and US officials participating in Middle East discussions ensure that any reference to Arab/Palestinian refugees "also include a similarly explicit reference to the resolution of the issue of Jewish refugees from Arab countries."
Just as importantly, the first-ever hearing in the British parliament on the subject of Jewish refugees from Arab countries took place in the House of Lords. It was convened by Labor MP John Mann and Lord Anderson of Swansea, a joint briefing organized by Justice for Jews from Arab Countries (JJAC) in association with the Board of Deputies of British Jews.
Greater recognition of the refugee issue and the ethnic cleansing of over a million Jewish families who’s majority now lives in Israel, formerly expelled from the wider Arab world will bring clearer definition of the area's history to a greater number of people.
A people like the Arabs in Greater Israel cannot be said to have been "ethnically cleansed" from an area in which it has grown at double the rate of its geographic neighbors. On the other hand, a people, like the Jews that lost more than 190 times its number from an area over the course of a few decades makes a very strong case for Jews having undergone ethnic cleansing by the Arab countries.
Jordan is Arab-Palestine
ReplyDeleteIn compliance with the 1920 League of Nations Resolution (which was illegal and non-binding with no legal standing), two-state solution was implemented in 1922 when British administration of occupied Israel in violation of International Treaties, (for 50 barrels of oil) allocated more than 77% of Israel territory to Arab-Palestinian and created Transjordan (now Jordan in) where today over 90 percent of the population identify themselves as Arab-Palestinian. Every party, including UN, EU, US, etc., must respect The 1920 San Remo Treaty, The Faisal Weizmann Agreement of 1919 and the carrying out of the international Agreements and decisions by the League of Nations Resolutions, adopted and accepted by UN in 1945. Therefore, all so called “Arab-Palestinians” must be relocated there in Jordan. Enough of stealing Israel/Jewish land. Britain and Jordan must compensate Israel for stolen land and natural resources. That includes the assets and land of the million Jewish families and their children, (that lived in the Arab countries for over 2,800 years), who were expelled from Arab countries of which the majority settled in Greater Israel. (Jewish personal property,Jewish businesses and homes including over 120,000 sq. km. of Jewish owned Real Estate property was confiscated, which is 6 times the size of Israel and valued in the trillions of dollars).
The League of Nation was contemplating on filing charges against Britain as trustee for violating the Mandate for Palestine, especially for restricting Jewish immigration prior and during WW2 1939-1947 (These actions by the British caused the deaths of millions of Jews trying to escape Nazi concentration camps. After WWII, the British went as far as sending their agents to blow-up Jewish refugee Ships bound for Palestine, under “Operation Embarrass”).
History of “Arab-Arab-Palestinians”.
Article 24 of the 1964 PLO Charter addressed to UN stipulates: “Arab-Palestinian Muslims do not exercise authority over West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and Gaza territories”
Arab leaders like Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi told the Peel Commission in 1937: “There is no such country as ‘Palestine’; ‘Palestine’ is a term the Zionists invented!”
In 1946, Arab historian Philip Hitti testified before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry that “there is no such thing as Palestine in history.”
In 1977, an executive committee member of the PLO Zahir Muhsein confirmed that there is no such thing as a separate “Arab-Palestinian” people of Arab descent. In an interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw in March 31, 1977, he stated the following: “The Arab-Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Arab-Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity.”
In 1948, Bernadotte, mediator between Jews and Arabs appointed by the UN General Assembly, noted in his journal that the “Arab-Palestinian” had little desire for independence:
“The Arab-Palestinian had at present no will of their own. Neither have they ever developed any specifically Arab-Palestinian nationalism. The demand for a separate Arab state in Palestine is consequently relatively weak. It would seem as though in existing circumstances most of the Arab-Palestinian would be quite content to be incorporated in Transjordan.”
In 1947, Arab leaders protesting the UN recommended partition plan argued that Palestine was part of Syria and “politically, the Arabs of Palestine (were) not (an) independent separate … political entity.”
Western media must stop broadcasting and publishing fraudulent, fake, false, and distorted information on Israel and Jews. Current situation, specifically in Europe, is quite similar to 1930’s, however, we, Jews, learned our lessons and will not hesitate to give appropriate response to any mortal attacks on us.
YJ Draiman