Facts Arab-Palestinians Would Rather Not Admit About Israel - Draiman

Facts Arab-Palestinians Would Rather Not Admit About Israel

Statue of Maimonides at Cordoba, Spain.

  

In doing my research and writing various articles about the Arab-Israeli Conflict I was asked some pointed questions about my conclusions in some of my recent articles, which dealt – as most of them do – with the history of Israel: biblical and post-biblical and international laws and treaties.

I had stated in one of my articles the following sentence: “Only one people has ever made Jerusalem its capital and only one people ever established their ancestral indigenous and biblical homeland between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea: the Jews.”

I had also added that: “the Jews were the remaining aboriginal indigenous inhabitants of the Land for two millennia before the Muslim religion was even created.”

The commenter, nevertheless, had correctly pointed out that most people, because they have been exposed for such a long time to anti-Israel Arab propaganda, falsely believe that there has not been a continuous Jewish presence in the Land of Israel for the last 2,000 years. They are thus unaware that the historical territory of the land of Israel was never totally cleansed of Jewish presence. Thus, the Arabs would rather you forget also that Jews lived for two millennia in Mesopotamia and in what became later known as British created Iraq.

Indeed Jews had resided for over 3,200 years in that territory from the Babylonian Captivity 586 CE onwards. It was when International treaties executed by the Allied Supreme Powers which incorporated the Balfour Declaration as international law and once the number of Jews in Palestine-Israel became substantial enough to merit the subsequent implementation of those treaties Israel was re-established in 1948 than the Iraqi Arabs drove the Jews from their ancient homes, turning them into refugees who found sanctuary in Israel; an impoverished country barely able to support them at the time. Much more Jewish refugees were created than Arab refugees a ratio of 2 to 1, as one Arab state after another in the Middle East and North Africa persecuted and drove out their Jewish populations who resided in those countries for over two millennia, while confiscating all their assets. A crime, which hardly is ever recognized.

Arab-Palestinians and their anti-Israel supporters try to delude and convince the world that the Jews just appeared in the early 20^th century after being dispersed for over two thousand years from their biblical ancestral homeland. That is a flat out lie and flies in the face of factual recorded history. But facts never seem to matter to Arabs and pro-Arabs. So the following brief history lesson will be for them an inconvenient truth.

Let me start by quoting from an article written in The Weekly Standard, May 11, 1998 by Charles Krauthammer:

"Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity: It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name, speaks the same language, and worships the same God that it did 3,000 years ago. You dig the soil and you find pottery from Davidic times, coins from Bar Kokhba, and 2,000-year-old scrolls written in a script remarkably like the one today advertising ice cream at the corner candy store."

The Jewish People trace their origin to Abraham, he who is called the Holy Convert, the first Jew, who established the belief in only one God, the creator of the universe. Abraham, his son Yitzhak (Isaac), and grandson Jacob (Israel), are referred to as the patriarchs of the Israelites who lived in what was then the Land of Canaan; later to become known as the Land of Israel. They and their wives are buried in the Ma'arat HaMachpela, the Tomb of the Patriarchs, in Hebron, Judaism’s second holiest city. (Genesis Chapter 23).

The name, Israel, derives from the name given to Jacob (Genesis 32:29). His 12 sons were the ancestors of the 12 tribes that later developed into the Jewish nation. The name Jew derives from Yehuda (Judah) one of the 12 sons of Jacob. You will find the names of the tribes listed in Exodus 1:1. Yehuda (Judea) is also the biblical name of the southern region of what the world calls by its Arab name – the West Bank. Shomron (Samaria) is the northern half.

Modern Israel shares the same language, culture, tradition and Jewish faith passed through generations starting with the founding father Abraham and the Jews have had a continuous presence in the land of Israel for over the past 3,400 years.

Menorah plundered from the Temple, depicted on the Arch of Titus, Rome.

In 70 AD, Rome destroyed the Holy Temple and conquered the Jewish nation, yet only part of the population was sent into exile. Even after the Second Jewish Revolt against the continuing cruel Roman occupation, Jews, though banned from Jerusalem, survived for centuries in other Jewish towns including Rafah, Gaza, Yavne, Ashkelon, Jaffa and Caesarea as well as throughout Galilee and the Golan. Ruins of synagogues built in post-biblical Byzantine times are found scattered throughout the Golan and an epic act of Jewish resistance to the Roman legions took place at Gamla, high upon the Golan Heights. Here again, the Jewish presence predates the modern Syrian claims to the Heights by two millennia.

Interestingly, early seventh century battles raged between the Persians and the Byzantines over the Land of Israel. The Byzantines were oppressing the Jews and a Jewish general, Benjamin of Tiberius, was able to raise an army of twenty thousand Jewish men from villages and towns in northern Israel to support the Persian cause against the oppressors. This again points to extensive Jewish life in the land well after the erroneous and false Arab claim that Jews had not lived in the land during the last 2,200 years.

The height of Jewish prominence was again achieved in the tenth century. In Tiberius, by the shores of Lake Kinneret, the Sea of Galilee, a symbol system for Hebrew vowels was created which eventually gained universal acceptance. But with the advent of the Crusades in Israel during the 12^th century, and the massacres of thousands of Jews in Jerusalem and throughout the land, the Jewish population reached its lowest point. But Jewish populations again revived, strengthened by new Jewish immigrants arriving constantly from the Diaspora. Many such returnees settled in Safed, Tiberius, Hebron and Jerusalem.

These are the four Holy Jewish cities of the Land with Jerusalem, north, south, east and west, the eternal over 3,200 year old Jewish capital and veritable jewel in the crown. Jews traveling from Europe, such as the remarkable medieval explorer, Benjamin of Tudela, had to overcome immense perils while crossing lands at war with one another. They had to avoid death or capture by bandits, or at sea from North African pirates and Crusaders based in Cyprus or Malta. That they came at all, however, remains a tribute to the earliest efforts to keep Israel populated with its aboriginal and ancestral folk and abide by the religious commandments to go up to the land of Israel and reside there.

A brief list of Jews returning to the historical ancestral land reveals a constant arrival of people joining existing Jewish villages and communities, themselves always at the mercy of alien occupiers.

According to the Center for Online Judaic Studies, here are just a few of the names of early Jewish returnees consisting of some Rabbinical leaders:

1075:1141 Yehuda Halevi, poet.

1135: 1204 Maimonides, philosopher.

1210: Settlement in Israel of three hundred French and English rabbis.

1267: Nachmanides arrives in Israel.

1313: Estory Haparchi arrives: The first geographer of Israel.

1538: Renewal of rabbinic ordination in Safed.

1561: Joseph Nasi leases Tiberius from Turkish sultan.

1700: Yehuda HeChasid and his followers arrive in Jerusalem.

1777: Large Hassidic group settles in Galilee.

1797: Rabbi Nachman of Bratzlav’s trip to Israel.

1808: Disciples of Elijah, Gaon of Vilna, settle in Jerusalem.

This very partial list of Jewish immigrants, who arrived well before the 20^th century, is an inconvenient truth to the Arab and pro-Arab propagandists who would have you believe their delusions and myth that the Jews only arrived much, much later.

The national coins, the pottery, the cities and villages, the ancient Hebrew texts…all support the empirical fact that Jews always had a continuous presence in that land for over 3,100 years and the fact that Jewish villages and towns were to be found in all parts of the ancient Jewish homeland and throughout all the preceding years, up until the present time, certainly dwarfs and debunks any claims that other people in the region may have; especially the Arabs who came from neighboring Arab countries and today call themselves Arab-Palestinians.

TIMELINE IN ISRAEL aka Palestine 1200 BC to 2015

PHILISTINES, JEBUSITES & ISRAELITES
1200 - 1020 BC

ISRAEL / JUDAH
1020 - 745 BC

ASSYRIANS
745 - 597 BC

EGYPTIANS III
609 - 605 BC

BABYLONIANS
604 - 538 BC

PERSIANS
538 - 332 BC

GREEKS
332 - 140 BC

HASMONAEANS - ISRAELITES
140 - 63 B.C.

ROMANS
63 BC - 300 

BYZANTINES  - Christian
313 - 611

PERSIANS II
611 - 628

BYZANTINES II
628 - 636

CALIPHATES
636 - 661 (1099)

UMAYYADS
661 - 749

ABBASIDS
749 - 877

TULUNIDS
877 - 906

ABBASIDS II
906 - 935

IKHSHIDIDS
935 - 969

FATIMIDS
970 - 1079

SELJUKS
1079 - 1098

CRUSADERS - Christians they killed many Jews and Muslims
1098 - 1187

AYYUBIDS
1187 - 1260

MAMLUKS
1260 - 1517

OTTOMANS
1517 - 1917

BRITISH MANDATE
1920 - 1948

ISRAEL, JORDAN & EGYPT
1948 - 1967

ISRAEL
1967 - 1982 All of Territory west of the Jordan River and Sinai to the Suez Canal

OSLO ACCORDS I & II
1993 - 2000

DISENGAGEMENT, HAMAS OCCUPATION OF GAZA
2005 - PRESENT

Read Volumes One and Two of “Politicide: The attempted murder of the Jewish state.” 

Lies, myths and Obama

A lie is like a noxious and perennial weed that is almost impossible to root out. So it is with the other weed; the delusion and myth of an Arab people who call themselves Arab-Palestinians and who dream of their fictitious past living in a land that belonged to them for millennia with their delusional capital, Jerusalem.

But that is the same fertile magical Arab imagination that gave us The Thousand and One Arabian Nights replete with fantastic tales of magic, wizards and Ali Baba. Both, the claim of a distinct Arab people called Palestinians and the Thousand and One Nights are equal delusion and fantasies in the Arab mind.

The truth – not the delusion and fantasy – is that there was never an independent, sovereign Arab state called Palestine. Jerusalem was never the capital of any Arab polity in all of recorded history. Only one people has ever made Jerusalem its capital and only one people ever established their ancestral and biblical homeland between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea: the Jewish people.

In the years before Israel was Internationally reconstituted in 1948, the world referred to its Jewish residents as Palestinians. Indeed, the Palestinian military units fighting with the British Army in World War Two were Jewish to the man and woman. Few, if any, Arabs or Muslims fought against the Axis powers during that war and indeed many served in SS units; often willing collaborators with the Germans in murdering Jewish communities in the Balkans and elsewhere.

Remember, the word Palestine was only used legally after the Mandate for Palestine over the territory was granted by the League of Nations in 1920 to Great Britain with the express international legal obligation of establishing in Palestine a Jewish homeland. At that time, the Palestine Mandate covered all of what is Israel -including Judea and Samaria, or what is erroneously called the West Bank – and present day Jordan.

What so many in the media forget, if they ever knew, is that after the Ottoman Empire was dismantled by the victorious Allies, France and Britain, at the end of World War One, many new Arab states were created with Palestine reserved for a Jewish homeland under international treaties executed by the Supreme Allied Powers.

But Britain violated the international treaties and reneged on its obligation to the Jews and tore away four fifths of the Mandate for Palestine territory in 1922 – that is all the land east of the Jordan River – and arbitrarily gave it away to the Hashemite Bedouin tribe. Immediately Jews were forbidden to live in what became Trans-Jordan and eventually the Kingdom of Jordan: An early example of ethnic cleansing and a blatant Arab apartheid.

The borders of Mandate Palestine as eventually determined Arab State of Jordan East of the Jordan River and Israel West of the Jordan River

Interestingly, Arabs and their leaders had rejected any notion of a separate Palestinian identity. For them, Palestine region was merely a part of Greater Syria and the Arabs were indistinct from their neighbors. Indeed, the Syrian dictator, Assad, still plots for the return of Jordan, Israel and the disputed territories.

As far as Palestine was concerned to those Arab absentee landlords of the early years of the 20th century, living in the fleshpots of Cairo, Damascus and Beirut, the land was worthless: barren and malarial infested. Then the Jewish pioneers returning in the late 19th century began to purchase the wasted and barren land at exorbitant prices – much higher than fertile land in Iowa and Idaho – drain the swamps and redeem again the ancestral ancient beloved Jewish homeland.

Jewish development of the centuries old neglected and desolate land, restored in familial love through blood, sweat and tears, ironically brought into the territory hundreds of thousands of illegal Arab aliens who found livelihoods that were unavailable in the stagnant and corrupt neighboring Arab societies.

The British authorities invariably turned a blind eye to the flood of Arab illegals seeing in them a stick to beat the Jewish residents. Herein lays the genesis of the present day Arab claim to all the land and their descendant’s stated threat to extirpate any and all Jewish life within its borders.

So many well-meaning people in the West, as well as latent anti-Semites, have fallen hook, line and sinker for the myth and delusion of an Arab-Palestinian homeland called Palestine. So many people now believe the fantasy and false claim by the well-funded Arab propaganda machine that the Jews came and stole it.

But though it sounds affecting and no doubt to the liberal mind particularly emotional with all the tugging of the heart strings that it implies, it is still an absolute lie and deception just like the weed that can never be fully uprooted.

For so many people who are either ignorant or hard hearted towards the Jewish state, they are unaware that the Jews were the aboriginal indigenous inhabitants for two millennia before the Muslim religion was created and Muslim armies swarmed out of Arabia with a Koran in one hand and a sword in the other to occupy vast territories in the name of Allah. The pity is that the bible as history is there for all to read. Sadly, so many ignore what is written.

The Arabs have spread over 12 million square kilometers in the Middle East and into North Africa (the Maghreb). Israel’s territory is barely 21,000 square kilometers and may soon be reduced further if its biblical ancestral heartland of Judea and Samaria is torn from it to create in its midst a terror state called Palestine: the 23rd Arab state.

When the world extends to the million Jewish refugees who were expelled from Arab lands nearly 70 years ago the same sympathetic obsession that they extend to the Arabs who needlessly left Israel at the urging's of the corrupt Arab League and the six attacking Arab armies, then there maybe hope for a better international community than exists at the present time.

When the same world expresses horror and condemns Jordan for confiscating Jewish territory and assets and barring Jews over 80 years ago from living in what was the Palestine Mandate territory east of the Jordan River, and when the world condemns the so-called Arab-Palestinian Authority from barring Jews within its territory now and stop indoctrinating their children and the masses to commit terror and violence, then there may be equal hope for a redeemed international community.

Meanwhile the Jews – the real authentic Palestinians – strive to live within the miniscule territory that is the Jewish state, denied even one day of peace from their genocidal Arab and Muslim neighbors. And then there is the American president, Barack Hussein Obama, who will not rest until Israel crumbles under his malevolent gaze and swaggering intimidation.