Why Do Arab Nationalists Demand the Liberation of Palestine If They Gave Up on Other Occupied Regions?

We know why. Arabs are resentful that Jews are not going to apologize for surviving a 60+ year war that Arabs started, the same war that the detestable Arafat the Egyptian perpetrated when he created the PLO in 1964 - three years before there was an "occupation" in 1967. The 1967 war was a direct result of Arab aggression towards Israel, and a war which the Arabs lost.

Arabs themselves are occupiers in the Middle East. Arabs belong in Arabia and have no right to Egypt, Syria, Jordan, or Lebanon.

In addition the tactic of Muslims to usurp synagogues and churches and supplant them with mosques is all part of the Islamic warlord tradition and a telling example of Islam's iconoclasty. Islam thrives on symbols and symbolism and reinventing history. "Palestine" has a fabricated neo-history and the use of the word is part of Palestinianism. It only became injected into America's lexicon in 1964 when Arafat reinvented and revised the history of the Middle East, and the rest of the world, which was already being gobbled up by hippies, communists, radicals and Jane Fonda-types, all fell for The Big Lie.

Via MEMRI:

Following are excerpts from a TV debate with Oslo-based Palestinian author Dr. Ahmad Abu Matar and former head of the Arab Writers Union 'Ali 'Oqla 'Orsan. The debate aired on Al-Jazeera TV on July 22, 2008:

To view this clip, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1827.htm.

Ahmad Abu Matar: "Where are all the masses with regard to the Alexandretta province, which was occupied 80 years ago?! When the Turkish-Syrian border was demarcated a few years ago, any mention of the occupied Alexandretta province was erased from the Syrian curricula - from elementary school to university.

[...]

"They have forgotten all about occupied Al-Ahwaz, the Alexandretta province, and about Sabta and Malila. Who is against normalization? The resistance and Hamas, you say? Examine this shameful paradox - several months ago, Hamas would launch 'decorative' missiles, and would accuse the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas of oppressing resistance fighters. Now, for the past two or three months, Hamas has given normalization a cute nickname - tahdiya - which sounds slightly nicer than 'normalization,' and it began to arrest people who launched missiles. What is this paradox?"

[...]

'Ali 'Oqla 'Orsan: "A people that participates in a campaign on the scale of the Arab-Zionist conflict and whose land is occupied cannot open a second front in Alexandretta or anywhere else. This does not mean that it has forgotten its rights, but that it would be crazy to open several fronts simultaneously all over the world. We learned this lesson painfully in 1967, when our army fought both in the south and in the north. We must not live in delusions."

[...]

Ahmad Abu Matar: "My colleague, Dr. 'Ali 'Oqla 'Orsan, said, regarding the question of why we have forgotten Alexandretta, that it is all a question of priorities. To be honest, I do not understand these priorities. Alexandretta was occupied in 1936, and we have forgotten about it, and Al-Ahwaz was occupied in 1925, and we have forgotten about it. Palestine was occupied in 1948 - so what are the priorities? Do you want to liberate the first region to fall, or the last? If you want to start with the last region - go ahead and issue just one statement about the UAE islands occupied by Iran. This proves that there is a defect in the thinking of the anti-normalization committees."

Click here for more facts about the tenuous Islamic identification and "connection" with the Jewish and Christian Holy Land.

The 'Two Jerusalems' Myth

To return the “Arab neighborhoods” of Jerusalem to Arab/Muslim control would mark the beginning of the end of Israel and its raison d’etre for existing as a nation state. Received by email. From The 'Two Jerusalems" Myth:

Palestinians have nurtured a myth that historically there were two Jerusalems - an Arab 'East Jerusalem' and a Jewish 'West Jerusalem.'

Jerusalem was never an Arab city; Jews have held a majority in Jerusalem since 1870, and 'east-west' is a geographic, not political designation. It is no different than claiming Annapolis, the capital of Maryland, should be a separate political entity from the rest of that state.

In 1880, Jews constituted 52 percent of the Old City population in 'East Jerusalem' and were still inhabiting 42 percent of the Old City in 1914. In 1948, there were 100,000 Jews in Jerusalem, with 60,000 Arabs. A joint Jordanian-Israeli census reported that 67.7 percent of the city's population in 1961 was Jewish. A 1967 aerial photo reveals the truth about the area called 'East Jerusalem': it was no more than an overcrowded walled city with a few scattered neighborhoods surrounded by villages. Prior to unification, Jordanian-controlled 'East Jerusalem' was a mere 6 square kilometers, compared to 38 square kilometers on the Jewish side.

Although uniting the city transformed all of Jerusalem into the largest city in Israel and a bustling metropolis, even moderate Palestinian leaders reject the idea of a united city. Their minimal demand for 'just East Jerusalem' really means the Jewish holy sites (including the Jewish Quarter and the Western Wall), which Arabs have failed to protect, and the return of neighborhoods that house a significant percentage of Jerusalem's present-day Jewish population. Most of that city is built on rock-strewn empty land around the city that was in the public domain for the past 40 years. With an overall population of 730,000 today, separating 'East Jerusalem' and 'West Jerusalem' is as viable and acceptable as the notion of splitting Berlin into two cities again, or separating East Harlem from the rest of Manhattan.

Click here to read the entire chapter Jerusalem

Copyright © 2007 Myths and Facts, Inc. and Eli E. Hertz

Palestinian Pretense and Israeli Reality

An excellent introduction to the differences in perception between the Israelis and their Arab neighbors is an article by Victor David Hanson in the National Review. It is called Palestinian Pretense and Israeli Reality. You'll find it at:

http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson031802.shtml

If you believe what you hear on the news and media, you would think there is an entity called a Palestinian people, who lived in a country/state/area called Palestine since Canaanite/Biblical/Mohammadan times. The Israelis occupied Palestine in 1967. The Palestinians want the occupiers out of their land. And of course they are entitled to do whatever it takes to get their land back. No? No.

Here's the facts.

Who are the Palestinians? Palestinians are Arabs. They have no historical, national or cultural identity distinct from other Arabs of the region. Most of them came into Palestine in search of economic opportunities after World War 1 when the British and the Jews began to build up a land that was moribund.

What is Palestine? When the Romans conquered Judea, they renamed it Palestine. Since then, no occupying power ever made it an independent state or established a capital in Jerusalem. Under the Ottoman Empire, it was part of the province of Syria.

After World War I, the area was mandated to Britain to establish a Jewish national home. Instead, in 1922, Britain split off 75% of Palestine to establish the Emirate of Transjordan, as a throne for the Arabian Hashemite family.

The UN decided to split the rest of Palestine between Jews and Arabs. In 1948, Arab armies and volunteers - from Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Morocco - attacked the newborn State of Israel. Transjordan annexed the area intended for an Arab state, and renamed itself the Kingdom of Jordan, calling the annexed area the "West Bank". Egypt took over Gaza. No Arab suggested making the West Bank and/or Gaza into yet another Arab state until 1967, when Israel was again attacked by the Arabs and took these areas.

Whether or not she chooses to exercise the right, Israel owns the West Bank by right of conquest. She also has unassailable biblical, historical and residential claims. The Mandate to develop a Jewish state in ALL of Palestine is still in force; and the U.N. -- the legal heir to the League of Nations -- is legally obligated to help the Jews. Before 1967, the last previous legal owner was the Ottoman Empire. And Turkey, heir to the Ottomans, has never asked for it back.

h/t to Think Israel.

Anti-Israel Ad Campaign Set for Washington Subway

Folks, even as Israel completes its evacuation of more than 20 "settlements" in the Gaza Strip, Arabs still make the argument that Gaza remains "occupied" territory, even though palestinians exercise self-government and the Israeli civilian and military presence in these disputed territories have been removed.

This proves that the palestinian claim of "occupation" is just an excuse to kill Jews and the reason for this is that their religious leaders tell them to do it. Now Washington D.C. is getting involved in impugning Israel.

From Anti-Israel Ad Campaign Set for Washington Subway:

Starting May 13 for four weeks, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has ordered 20 of its subway stations to place posters advertising a June 10 rally to end "Israel's illegal military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem."

Initiated by the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, the 46-by-60-inch posters depict an imposing tank pointing at a child with a schoolbag. Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, president of the Israel Project, said she expected the ads to have a "minimum impact."

Many participants in focus group studies on the ad upon first glance thought the tank was an American one surrounded by Iraqi children.

To send your letters of disgust at this flawed attempt by these arabists to impugn Israel, contact the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation at us_campaign@endtheoccupation.org. The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, like so many other anti-Israel organizations, thrive on the intentional use of false data in order to sway world opinion against Israel. For example, their rhetoric is littered with concepts, mostly mythical, intertwined with words like "East Jerusalem", ""Palestinians", "West Bank", etc. There is no law on earth that requires the Jewish people to accept the revision of their history nor their own demise merely because Arabs and arabists say we should.

For more information on the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, click here.

Furthermore, here are the facts about Arab terrorism prior to the establishment of the legitimate and sovereign nation of Israel in 1948 (Source: Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs):

The basic premise of the Palestinian claim - that the 'occupation' causes terrorism - is historically flawed. Arab and Palestinian terrorism against Israel existed prior to the beginning of Israeli control over the West Bank and Gaza as a result of the Six Day War of June 1967, and even prior to the establishment of the State of Israel in May 1948.

For example, Arab terrorism was rampant during wave of anti-Jewish riots in 1920-21 (which was characterized by the brutal murder in Jaffa of the prominent Jewish author Y. Brenner), during the 'Disturbances' of 1929 (which included the massacre of the Jewish community in Hebron), during the Arab Revolt of 1936-39, and in many other recorded incidents of wholesale anti-Jewish Arab violence throughout the pre-state period.

The Palestinian terrorism campaign was stepped-up on the eve of the UN Partition Resolution of November 1947, and led to the joint Arab invasion of 1948-49 which delineated the boundaries of the newly established State of Israel.

Indeed, this deplorable violence can be traced back to the beginning of the renewed Jewish settlement of the Land of Israel over a century ago.

After the War of Independence, Arab terrorism expanded in scope. In 1952, when 'fedayeen' terrorist border incursions reached their height, there were about 3,000 incidents of cross-border violence, extending from the malicious destruction of property to the brutal murder of civilians. This anti-Israeli violence encompassed both frontier settlements and population centers, and was perpetrated, for the most part, against innocent civilians, most of them new immigrants.

In conclusion, the oft-repeated Arab claim that the Israeli 'occupation' is somehow to blame for the Palestinian terrorism is nothing more than an empty retort, repudiated by the facts, and disproved by a century of historical reality.

The following is a partial list of documented acts of Arab terrorism, all occurring prior to the beginning of the Israeli administration of the West Bank and Gaza in 1967:

Major Arab Terrorist Attacks against Israelis Prior to the 1967 Six-Day War

Jan 1, 1952 - Seven armed terrorists attacked and killed a nineteen year-old girl in her home, in the neighborhood of Beit Yisrael, in Jerusalem.

Apr 14, 1953 - Terrorists tried for the first time to infiltrate Israel by sea, but were unsuccessful. One of the boats was intercepted and the other boat escaped.

June 7, 1953 - A youngster was killed and three others were wounded, in shooting attacks on residential areas in southern Jerusalem.

June 9, 1953 - Terrorists attacked a farming community near Lod, and killed one of the residents. The terrorists threw hand grenades and sprayed gunfire in all directions. On the same night, another group of terrorists attacked a house in the town of Hadera. This occurred a day after Israel and Jordan signed an agreement, with UN mediation, in which Jordan undertook to prevent terrorists from crossing into Israel from Jordanian territory.

June 10, 1953 - Terrorists infiltrating from Jordan destroyed a house in the farming village of Mishmar Ayalon.

June 11, 1953 - Terrorists attacked a young couple in their home in Kfar Hess, and shot them to death.

Sept 2, 1953 - Terrorists infiltrated from Jordan, and reached the neighborhood of Katamon, in the heart of Jerusalem. They threw hand grenades in all directions. Miraculously, no one was hurt.

Mar 17, 1954 - Terrorists ambushed a bus traveling from Eilat to Tel Aviv, and opened fire at short range when the bus reached the area of Maale Akrabim in the northern Negev. In the initial ambush, the terrorists killed the driver and wounded most of the passengers. The terrorists then boarded the bus, and shot each passenger, one by one. Eleven passengers were murdered. Survivors recounted how the murderers spat on the bodies and abused them. The terrorists could clearly be traced back to the Jordanian border, some 20 km from the site of the terrorist attack.

Jan 2, 1955 - Terrorists killed two hikers in the Judean Desert.

Mar 24, 1955 - Terrorists threw hand grenades and opened fire on a crowd at a wedding in the farming community of Patish, in the Negev. A young woman was killed, and eighteen people were wounded in the attack.

Apr 7, 1956 - A resident of Ashkelon was killed in her home, when terrorists threw three hand grenades into her house. Two members of Kibbutz Givat Chaim were killed, when terrorists opened fire on their car, on the road from Plugot Junction to Mishmar Hanegev. There were further hand grenade and shooting attacks on homes and cars, in areas such as Nitzanim and Ketziot. One person was killed and three others wounded.

Apr 11, 1956 - Terrorists opened fire on a synagogue full of children and teenagers, in the farming community of Shafrir. Three children and a youth worker were killed on the spot, and five were wounded, including three seriously.

Apr 29, 1956 - Egyptians killed Roi Rotenberg, 21 years of age, from Nahal Oz.

Sept 12, 1956 - Terrorists killed three Druze guards at Ein Ofarim, in the Arava region.

Sept 23, 1956 - Terrorists opened fire from a Jordanian position, and killed four archaeologists, and wounded sixteen others, near Kibbutz Ramat Rachel.

Sept 24, 1956 - Terrorists killed a girl in the fields of the farming community of Aminadav, near Jerusalem.
Oct 4, 1956 - Five Israeli workers were killed in Sdom.

Oct 9, 1956 - Two workers were killed in an orchard of the youth village, Neve Hadassah, in the Sharon region.
Nov 8, 1956 - Terrorists opened fire on a train, attacked cars and blew up wells, in the North and Center of Israel. Six Israelis were wounded.

Feb 18, 1957 - Two civilians were killed by terrorist landmines, next to Nir Yitzhak, on the southern border of the Gaza Strip.

Mar 8, 1957 - A shepherd from Kibbutz Beit Govrin was killed by terrorists in a field near the Kibbutz.

Apr 16, 1957 - Terrorists infiltrated from Jordan, and killed two guards at Kibbutz Mesilot.

May 20, 1957 - A terrorist opened fire on a truck in the Arava region, killing a worker.

May 29, 1957 - A tractor driver was killed and two others wounded, when the vehicle struck a landmine, next to Kibbutz Kisufim.

June 23, 1957 - Israelis were wounded by landmines, close to the Gaza Strip.

Aug 23, 1957 - Two guards of the Israeli Mekorot water company were killed near Kibbutz Beit Govrin.

Dec 21, 1957 - A member of Kibbutz Gadot was killed in the Kibbutz fields.

Feb 11, 1958 - Terrorists killed a resident of Moshav Yanov who was on his way to Kfar Yona, in the Sharon area.

Apr 5, 1958 - Terrorists lying in ambush shot and killed two people near Tel Lachish.

Apr 22, 1958 - Jordanian soldiers shot and killed two fishermen near Aqaba.

May 26, 1958 - Four Israeli police officers were killed in a Jordanian attack on Mt. Scopus, in Jerusalem.

Nov 17, 1958 - Syrian terrorists killed the wife of the British air attache in Israel, who was staying at the guesthouse of the Italian Convent on the Mt. of the Beatitudes.

Dec 3, 1958- A shepherd was killed at Kibbutz Gonen. In the artillery attack that followed, 31 civilians were wounded.

Jan 23, 1959 - A shepherd from Kibbutz Lehavot Habashan was killed.

Feb 1, 1959 - Three civilians were killed by a terrorist landmine near Moshav Zavdiel.

Apr 15, 1959 - A guard was killed at Kibbutz Ramat Rahel.

Apr 27, 1959 - Two hikers were shot at close range and killed near Massada.

Sept 6, 1959 - Bedouin terrorists killed a paratroop reconnaissance officer near Nitzana.

Sept 8, 1959 - Bedouins opened fire on an army bivouac in the Negev, killing an IDF officer, Captain Yair Peled.
Oct 3, 1959 - A shepherd from Kibbutz Heftziba was killed near Kibbutz Yad Hana.

Apr 26, 1960 - Terrorists killed a resident of Ashkelon south of the city.

Apr 12, 1962 - Terrorists fired on an Egged bus on the way to Eilat; one passenger was wounded.

Sept 30, 1962 - Two terrorists attacked an Egged bus on the way to Eilat. No one was wounded.

Jan 1, 1965 - Palestinian terrorists attempted to bomb the National Water Carrier. This was the first attack carried out by the PLO's Fatah faction.

May 31, 1965 - Jordanian Legionnaires fired on the neighborhood of Musrara in Jerusalem, killing two civilians and wounding four.

June 1, 1965 - Terrorists attack a house in Kibbutz Yiftach.

July 5, 1965 - A Fatah cell planted explosives at Mitzpe Massua, near Beit Guvrin; and on the railroad tracks to Jerusalem near Kafr Battir.

Aug 26, 1965 - A waterline was sabotaged at Kibbutz Manara, in the Upper Galilee.

Sept 29, 1965 - A terrorist was killed as he attempted to attack Moshav Amatzia.

Nov 7, 1965 - A Fatah cell that infiltrated from Jordan blew up a house in Moshav Givat Yeshayahu, south of Beit Shemesh. The house was destroyed, but the inhabitants were miraculously unhurt.

Apr 25, 1966 - Explosions placed by terrorists wounded two civilians and damaged three houses in Moshav Beit Yosef, in the Beit Shean Valley.

May 16, 1966 - Two Israelis were killed when their jeep hit a terrorist landmine, north of the Sea of Galilee and south of Almagor. Tracks led into Syria.

July 13, 1966 - Two soldiers and a civilian were killed near Almagor, when their truck struck a terrorist landmine.

July 14, 1966 - Terrorists attacked a house in Kfar Yuval, in the North.

July 19, 1966 - Terrorists infiltrated into Moshav Margaliot on the northern border and planted nine explosive charges.

Oct 27, 1966 - A civilian was wounded by an explosive charge on the railroad tracks to Jerusalem.

Remember this, Jew-haters: We're not going to apologize for surviving a 60+ year war that Arabs started, the same war that Arafat, the Egyptian, helped perpetuate when he created the PLO in 1964 - three years before there was an "occupation" to come in 1967.

To those with a moral conscience, I say, be disgusted with the demonization of Israel, the nazification of Zionism, the politicization of all things Israeli, the Islamic oversimplification reducing all discussions of Israel to the palestinian problem.

Be disgusted with the myth that all will be peaceful once the Israeli "occupiers" are gone. Be disgusted by Arab bullies who make life miserable for non-Arabs in the Middle East and around the the world.

Do not fall into the trap of endlessly denying what Islam is as revealed by its 1400 year history. Do not become like the 193 zombies and illiterates listed here (Source: anti-Israel site) who support the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, who are too uneducated, too cowardly, too mendacious, too uncivilized to know the real truth: ma fish falastin.

From the "Know Your Enemy" Department: US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation

Folks, take out your notebooks, it's time to study history again and learn who the contemporary enemies of Israel are, starting with the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.

The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, (endtheoccupation [dot] org), is an anti-Israel coalition whose mission is "to change those US policies that both sustain Israel's 38 -year occupation of the palestinian West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, and deny equal rights for all".

The group has started a petition opposing H.R.4681, the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006. (But folks, it is a mistake to think of Judeophobia being a mostly Muslim problem; some Jews have signed below as well, mainly because of their pathological need to see themselves as modern, progressive and tolerant I'd say. These Jews are the Erev Rav, but more on who is the Erev Rav in another post.)

The 193 organizations at the end of this post have signed a letter urging Members of Congress to oppose H.R.4681. I wholeheartedly support H.R. 4681, Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006. Read about why you should also support it, here.

The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, like so many other anti-Israel organizations, thrive on the intentional use of false data in order to sway world opinion against Israel. For example, their rhetoric is littered with concepts, mostly mythical, intertwined with words like "East Jerusalem", ""Palestinians", "West Bank", etc. There is no law on earth that requires the Jewish people to accept the revision of their history nor their own demise merely because Arabs and arabists say we should.

For example, the concept of "Palestinians" is one that did not exist until about 1948, when the Arab inhabitants, of what until then was Palestine, wished to differentiate themselves from the Jews. Until then, the Jews were the Palestinians. There was the Palestinian Brigade of Jewish volunteers in the British World War II Army (at a time when the Palestinian Arabs were in Berlin hatching plans with Adolf Hitler for world conquest and how to kill all the Jews); there was the Palestinian Symphony Orchestra (all Jews, of course); there was The Palestine Post; and so much more.

The Arabs who now call themselves "Palestinians" do so in order to persuade a misinformed world that they are a distinct nationality and that "Palestine" is their ancestral homeland. But they are no distinct nationality at all. They are the same – in language, custom, and tribal and family ties – as the Arabs of Syria, Jordan, and beyond. There is no more difference between the "Palestinians" and the other Arabs of those countries than there is between, say, the citizens of Minnesota and those of Wisconsin.

What's more, many of the "Palestinians", or their immediate ancestors, came to the area attracted by the prosperity created by the Jews, in what previously had been pretty much of a wasteland.

The nationhood of the "Palestinians" is a myth.

So too is the concept of the mythical "West Bank". Again, this is a concept that did not exist until 1948, when the army of the Kingdom of Transjordan, together with five other Arab armies, invaded the Jewish state of Israel, on the very day of its creation. Even thought the Jews defeated the Arabs, Transjordan stayed in possession of Judea and Samaria and the eastern part of Jerusalem. The Jordanians expelled all the Jews from the area that they occupied, destroyed all Jewish houses of worship, and renamed as "West Bank" the territories that had been Judea and Samaria since time immemorial.

The attempt, quite successful, was to persuade an uninformed world that these territories were ancestral parts of the Jordanian Arab Kingdom (itself a very recent creation of British power diplomacy).

The world continues to call this territory the "West Bank", a geographical and political concept that cannot be found on any except the most recent maps.

But those signees listed below are grossly uneducated to know any better. It is Palestinian rejection of Israel's right to exist and not Israeli policies that are the cause of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. See, folks, because unlike the political Arabian Nation, the Zionist movement to Palestine/the Land of Israel represents a return, not an invasion. The only religious argument that makes sense is to point out how so many Jewish holy places exist in Israel. It's hardly irrational that Jews should want to live near the Wailing Wall or other sites of great importance in Jewish history and religion, particularly given how poorly Muslims have treated such sites.

Arabs and their apologists refuse to accept the fact that if Arabs had not attacked Israel in the first place, there would never have been an "occupation".

In fact, prior to 1967, Jordan had occupied the West Bank and Egypt had occupied the Gaza Strip; their presence in those territories was the result of their illegal invasion in 1948, in defiance of the UN Security Council. Jordan's 1950 annexation of the West Bank was recognized only by Great Britain (excluding the annexation of Jerusalem) and Pakistan, and rejected by the vast majority of the international community, including the Arab states. Where was the international outrage then?

See, folks, the current territorial dispute is contrived by the myth of an Israeli decision "to occupy," rather than the reality of a result of a war imposed on Israel by a coalition of Arab states in 1967.

The truth is Arabs are the singular instigators of this longest running war against the Jews, this war of hatred perpetrated upon Jews since the first wave of anti-Jewish riots in 1920-21 (which was characterized by the brutal murder in Jaffa of the prominent Jewish author Y. Brenner), during the 'Disturbances' of 1929 (which included the massacre of the Jewish community in Hebron), during the Arab Revolt of 1936-39, and in many other recorded incidents of wholesale anti-Jewish Arab violence throughout the pre-state period.

In 1929, Arabs shot and murdered 66 innocent Jewish men, women and children while praying in a synagogue in Hebron. On August 23rd, 1929, the Grand Mufti preached to a crowd fomenting them into a cauldron of hate, viciousness and cruelty and charged them with their holy mission: "Itbah al-Yahud!" - "Slaughter the Jew!" and that's what Arabs have been doing to Jews for almost a century.

And all this occurred before there was an "occupation". The politically-loaded term "occupied territories" or "occupation" seems to apply only to Israel and is hardly ever used when other territorial disputes are discussed, especially by interested third parties. For example, the U.S. Department of State refers to Kashmir as "disputed areas." Similarly in its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, the State Department describes the patch of Azerbaijan claimed as an independent republic by indigenous Armenian separatists as "the disputed area of Nagorno-Karabakh."

The often-repeated Arab claim that the Israeli 'occupation' is somehow to blame for the Palestinian terrorism is nothing more than an empty retort, repudiated by the facts, and disproved by a century of historical reality.

In 1956, Israel invaded the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Desert, both of which were held by Egypt, because Arab terrorists were infiltrating into Israel from the Gaza Strip and killing Jewish children in elementary schools. By infiltrating those territories, Israel cut the Gaza Strip off from Egypt, stopped the terrorism, and ensured that the Suez Canal and Straits of Tiran would be open to Israeli shipping - something the Egyptians tried to deny.

Since the Palestinians refused to make peace with Israel even when they were offered the entire Gaza Strip and most of the "West Bank" in 2000, it is clear that just handing them territory is not going to solve any problems.

To those with a moral conscience, I say, be disgusted with the demonization of Israel, the nazification of Zionism, the politicization of all things Israeli, the Islamic oversimplification reducing all discussions of Israel to the Palestinian problem. Be disgusted with the myth that all will be peaceful once the Israeli "occupiers" are gone. Be disgusted by Arab bullies who make life miserable for non-Arabs in the Middle East and around the the world.

Do not fall into the trap of endlessly denying what Islam is as revealed by its 1400 year history. Do not become like the 193 zombies and illiterates listed below, who are too uneducated, too cowardly, too mendacious, too uncivilized to know the real truth.

Know your enemy:

14 Friends of Palestine, San Rafael, CA
Afrikan Amerikan Institute for Policy Studies, Greenville, SC
Albany Peace Seekers, Albany, OR
American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Washington, DC
American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee—Chicago Chapter, Elmhurst, IL
American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee—Kentucky Chapter, Louisville, KY
American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee—Los Angeles Chapter, Lacanada, CA
American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee—New York Chapter, New York, NY
American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee—Philadelphia Chapter, Philadelphia, PA
American Arab Forum, Denville, NJ
American Council on Middle East Policy, New York, NY
American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia, PA
American Friends Service Committee—Chicago, Chicago, IL
American Friends Service Committee—Southeast Regional Office, Atlanta, GA
American Palestinian Public Affairs Forum, Louisville, KY
Americans Committed to Justice and Truth, Sagle, ID
Americans for a Just Peace in the Middle East, Santa Barbara, CA
Americans for a Palestinian State, Oakland, CA
Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights, Portland, OR
Ann Arbor Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East, Ann Arbor, MI
Arab/Jewish Peace Alliance, Albuquerque, NM
Arab Student Union, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI
Atlanta Palestine Solidarity, Atlanta, GA
A Touch of the Holy Land, Amery, WI
Ayar Engineering and Trading, Inc., Falls Church, VA
Bay Area Labor Committee for Peace and Justice, Oakland, CA
Benedictine Sisters, Mount St. Scholastica, Atchison, KS
Bethlehem Association, Media, PA
Birmingham Peace Project, Birmingham, AL
Black Voices for Peace, Washington, DC
Bosnia Support Committee, Washington, DC
Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights, Boston, MA
Boveri Workgroup, Bethesda, MD
Break the Silence, Berkeley, CA
Bubbes & Zaydes (Grandparents) for Peace in the Middle East, Philadelphia, PA
Buffalo/Western New York International Action Center, Buffalo, NY
Catholic Peace Fellowship, Philadelphia, PA
Children of Abraham, Birmingham, AL
Christians for Peace and Justice in the Middle East, Indianapolis, IN
Citizens for Fair Legislation, Alameda, CA
Citizens for Just Democracy, Amarillo, TX
Citizens for Justice in the Middle East, Kansas City, MO
Coalition for Peace with Justice, Chapel Hill, NC
Colorado Jews for Just Peace, Boulder, CO
Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine, Oak Park, IL
Committee for Peace in Israel and Palestine, Wainscott, NY
Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, New York, NY
Community for Peace, Winston Salem, NC
Council for the National Interest, Washington, DC
Council on American-Islamic Relations—Ohio, Columbus, OH
Dane County (WI) Democrats for Peace, Cottage Grove, WI
DC Anti-War Network, Washington, DC
DC Poets Against the War, Washington, DC
Deir Yassin Remembered, Geneva, NY
Dollars and Sins, Princeton, NJ
Don Quixote Society, Sherwood, OR
Duval Greens Party, Jacksonville, FL
Ecumenical Peace Institute, Berkeley, CA
El-Bireh Palestine Society, Cleveland, OH
Episcopal Peace Fellowship, Chicago, IL
Episcopal Peace Fellowship of East Carolina, Carolina Beach, NC
Episcopal Peace Fellowship, Southwest Washington, Vancouver, WA
Eyes Infinite Films, Golden Beach, FL
Florida Palestine Solidarity Network, Pensacola, FL
Free Speech League, Winston Salem, NC
Friends of Deir Ibzi’a, Berkeley, CA
Friends of Middle East Peace, Corvallis, OR
Friends of Sabeel—North America, Portland, OR
Ghost Ranch, Santa Fe, NM
Global Exchange, San Francisco, CA
Grassroots International, Boston, MA
Green Party of the United States, Washington, DC
Helena Peace Seekers, Helena, MT
Hindus for Peace and Justice, West Melbourne, FL
Home for Peace and Justice, Saginaw, MI
Home Perfection Contracting, Springfield, VA
Imagine-Life, Washington, DC
Institute for Palestine Studies, Washington, DC
Interfaith Community for Palestinian Rights, Austin, TX
International Action Center, New York, NY
International Socialist Organization, Chicago, IL
International Solidarity Movement—Chicago Chapter, Chicago, IL
Iowa Green Party, Iowa City, IA
Islamic Education and Information Center, Milpitas, CA
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions—USA, Chapel Hill, NC
Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development, Washington, DC
Jewish Voice for Peace, Oakland, CA
Jewish Women for Justice in Israel/Palestine, Boston, MA
Jews Against the Occupation, New York, NY
Jews for Global Justice, Portland, OR
Joining Hands Against Hunger, Atlanta/Palestine, Atlanta, GA
Justice Committee, Congregation of St. Joseph, Cleveland, OH
Justice First Foundation, West Kingston, RI
Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, Louisville, KY
Lakeshore Peacemakers, Manitowoc, WI
LA Petrophysics, La Habra Heights, CA
Latinos Por Mumia, Bronx, NY
Louisville Committee for Israeli/Palestinian States, Louisville, KY
Louisville Committee for Peace in the Middle East, Louisville, KY
Madison-Rafah Sister City Project, Madison, WI
Maine Peace and Justice in Israel/Palestine, Portland, ME
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, Washington, DC
Michigan Peace Team, Lansing, MI
Middle East Children’s Alliance, Berkeley, CA
Middle East Fellowship, Pasadena, CA
Middle East Peace Now of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
Middle East Policy Advisory Council, Oakland, CA
Middle East Research and Information Project, Washington, DC
Middle Eastern Center for Cultural and Religious Affairs, Baton Rouge, LA
MidEast: Just Peace, Cedar, MI
Monterey County Citizens for Middle East Peace, Monterey, CA
Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation—Kansas City Chapter, Kansas City, MO
Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation—San Diego Chapter, San Diego, CA
Muslim Community of the Palouse, Moscow, ID
Muslim Student Association, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Muslim Voters of America, Oak Park, IL
Naka ’48, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
National Association of Muslim American Women, Columbus, OH
National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco, CA
Northern Detroit Society for Peace and Justice, Sterling Heights, MI
Not in My Name, Evanston, IL
Office of Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation, Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi, Milwaukee, WI
Olympia Friends Meeting, Olympia, WA
Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project, Olympia, WA
Pacifica Forum, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, Kent, OH
Palestine-Israel Action Group, Ann Arbor Friends Meeting, Ann Arbor, MI
Palestine/Israel Justice Project of the United Methodist Church, Minnesota Annual Conference, Paynesville, MN
Palestine Solidarity Committee, Seattle, WA
Palestinian American Congress, Astoria, NY
Palestinian American Congress—CT Chapter, South Windsor, CT
Palestinian Concern Group, Seattle, WA
Palestinian Education Network, Concord, NH
Palestinian National Initiative (Al-Mubadara), Anaheim, CA
Palestinians for Peace and Democracy, San Antonio, TX
Pakistan Weekly, Berkeley, CA
Partners for Peace, Washington, DC
Pax Christi USA: National Catholic Peace Movement, Washington, DC
Peace Action, Silver Spring, MD
Peace Action Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Peace and Social Concerns Committee, Winston-Salem Friends Meeting, Winston-Salem, NC
Peace and Social Justice Center of South Central Kansas, Wichita, KS
Peace Majority Report, Lindenhurst, IL
Peace Mark, Valley Center, CA
People of Faith CT, West Hartford, CT
Peoria Area Peace Network, Peoria, IL
Progressive Democrats of America, Phoenix, AZ
Queers for Palestine, New York, NY
Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice, Olympia, WA
Rebuilding Alliance, Palo Alto, CA
Red Wing Alliance for Peace, Red Wing, MN
Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, Boulder, CO
Rule 19, Cambridge, MA
San Diego News Service, San Diego, CA
September 11 Action, Piedmont, CA
Sisters of Mercy, Regional Community of Detroit, Detroit Leadership Team, Farmington, MI
Soft Sound, St. Louis, MO
Sound Service Company, North Hollywood, CA
South Bay Mobilization for Peace and Justice, San Jose, CA
Southern Vermont Tikkun Community, East Dummerston, VT
South Kingstown Justice, Peace and Action Group, Narragansett, RI
South Suburban Progressive Forum, Monee, IL
St. Louis Women in Black, St. Louis, MO
St. Peter’s College Social Justice Program, Jersey City, NJ
Strength Through Peace, Fort Collins, CO
Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, Ann Arbor, MI
Students for International Knowledge, Loma Linda, CA
Talking Drum Collective, Stone Mountain, GA
Tikkun, Berkeley, CA
Tri-City Peace and Justice, Fremont, CA
Tucson Women in Black, Tucson, AZ
Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East, Cambridge, MA
United for Peace and Justice, New York, NY
United for Peace and Justice, Irving, TX
Ursulines of Tildonk for Justice and Peace, New York, NY
US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, Washington, DC
Veterans for Peace, Pensacola Chapter, Pensacola, FL
Veterans for Peace, Rachel Corrie Chapter #109, Olympia, WA
Virginia Anti-War Network, Aylett, VA
Voices of Palestine, Seattle, WA
Washington Interfaith Alliance for Middle East Peace, Washington, DC
We Are Wide Awake, Clermont, FL
WESPAC Foundation, White Plains, NY
Western North Carolina Peace Coalition, Asheville, NC
Western New York Peace Center, Buffalo, NY
Western New York Veterans for Peace, Buffalo, NY
Winston-Salem Friends Meeting, Winston-Salem, NC
Women Against Military Madness, Middle East Committee, Minneapolis, MN
Women in Black, Los Angeles, CA
Women in Black, Metro Detroit, Detroit, MI
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, US Section, Philadelphia, PA
Young Korean American Service and Education Center, Flushing, NY
Youth for Justice in Anchorage, Anchorage, AK

Source: http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=1188

It's not about "occupied territories"

Jews negotiating a fake "peace" with Palestinian Muslim racist-terrorists who believe themselves to be superior to all others, is never going to work.

Islam's hatred of non-Muslims explains why Israel, on May 14 and May 15, 1948, (the day after Israel declared her independence], was invaded by seven Arab armies: Egypt, Trans-Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Yemen.

Folks, it's not about "occupied territories". Muslims began their reign of terror before one Israeli ever stepped foot into the West Bank or Gaza Strip.

The killings of Jews by Palestinians -- and, earlier, by Arabs who didn't yet consider themselves Palestinians -- predated the establishment of the state of Israel.

Palestinian Muslims killers do not differentiate among their targets. The targets only have to be Jews, random Jews, any Jews: farmers on some remote kibbutz in the Galilee, working people in Haifa, or pious men and women from a town like Hebron where Jews had lived continuously for several centuries before Mohammed ever set foot on this earth.

To a Palestinian Muslim who believes himself to be superior to all other men, the death of any Jew will do.

Myth of "Arab East Jerusalem"

The Myth of "Arab East Jerusalem"

If a reporter were to write a story today which referred to Communist East Berlin, his editor would immediately call him on the carpet. The reason is simple. Communist East Berlin hasn’t existed for eight years. But if that same reporter were to write a story referring to another fiction, "Arab East Jerusalem," no correction would be made, even though "Arab East Jerusalem" hasn’t existed for 30 years.

Between 1948 and 1967, the Jordanian army occupied the Old City of Jerusalem and adjacent neighborhoods. They made these into "Arab East Jerusalem" by expelling the Jews who lived there, and whose families had lived there for generations. Then in June of 1967 "Arab East Jerusalem" ceased to exist. Yet the media, President Clinton and world leaders refer to "Arab East Jerusalem" as if it still exists. Two simple truths must be stated loud and clear:

Jerusalem is united, and has been since 1967. Just as there is no longer any such thing as East Berlin, there is no longer any such thing as "Arab East Jerusalem."

Today there are more Jews living in East Jerusalem than Arabs. So, to be accurate, if anything, the area should be called "Jewish East Jerusalem."

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