Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Happy Nakba Day! By the Way, the “Palestinians” Are Not Really a People
The Voice of Reason ^ | May 15, 2011 | Texas Peartree

Posted on 05/15/2011 10:22:09 AM PDT by Texas Peartree

Every people enjoy a favorite holiday. For many Americans it is the yearly celebration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, or the feast eaten by pilgrims with their Native American hosts. These events mark the beginning of the American people.

For many Jews the celebration revolves around the Jewish New Year, when the Lord created the world, or Passover, when the Jews were freed from Egyptian slavery. At that points the Jews truly became a people, as they wandered for forty years after their Exodus.

For the made up people known as Palestinians, the big event is Nakba Day, which marks when enraged Palestinians celebrate their unquenchable rage by becoming . . . well, more enraged.

Today the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) did a courageous job of preventing Palestinian protesters from marking Nakba Day by infiltrating by the thousands across the Syrian and Lebanese borders. Unlike America, Israel must and does take their borders seriously.

The Palestinians want to create a holiday like Nakba Day because they believe it will give their anger legitimacy. It does not. Historically, there is no such thing as Palestine, except what the Romans called the Jewish area of the Empire thousands of years before the nomadic tribes of Syria moved into Israel. The name was derived from the Philistines, who died out as a people millennia ago. There is no difference between "Palestinians" and Syrians and Jordanians. They share the same language, food, culture and primitive mindset.

If you were to go back 100 years...

(Excerpt) Read more at corybirenbaum.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Politics; Reference; Religion
KEYWORDS: arafat; israel; nakba; palestine

1 posted on 05/15/2011 10:22:17 AM PDT by Texas Peartree
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Texas Peartree
when enraged Palestinians celebrate their unquenchable rage by becoming . . . well, more enraged.

A 2011 Nakba Day "celebrator."

2 posted on 05/15/2011 10:35:14 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Texas Peartree

All they gotta do is call it “The Peoples Republic of Palestine” The international communis....I mean community will give em anything they want.


3 posted on 05/15/2011 10:35:19 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (Shut up and eat your Beans!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Texas Peartree

EGGS-zactly!
The “palestinians” were a media creation back in the 60s and it is why I always put the term in quotation marks. To say that one is “palestinian” is the same as someone, here, saying that they are from the state of Yellowstone or the Painted Desert. It IS a lie.


4 posted on 05/15/2011 10:37:13 AM PDT by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Texas Peartree

In 1966, when Gaza was part of Egypt, what nationality were the people there considered to be? When the West bank was part of Jordan, what nationality were the residents considered to be?


5 posted on 05/15/2011 10:44:30 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("It is only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything" -- Fight Club)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PapaBear3625

I remember when the national news used to talk about Arafat, the Egyptian. I’m not sure when they started saying Arafat, the Palestinian. But at some point there seems to have been a crack in the fiber of reality and we entered the Twilight Zone and are on our way to the Outer Limits. At least that is how it feels sometimes. lol The world has gone crazy.


6 posted on 05/15/2011 11:14:47 AM PDT by This I Wonder32460
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: PapaBear3625

“In 1966, when Gaza was part of Egypt, what nationality were the people there considered to be? When the West bank was part of Jordan, what nationality were the residents considered to be?”

By 1966 the Arab governments went along with the charade to use this “people” as a weapon against Israel. However, before Israel won the War Of Independence in 1948, Arabs considered the Arabs of Palestine to be just like people in Jordan or Egypt, and not a separate people.


7 posted on 05/15/2011 11:39:42 AM PDT by Texas Peartree
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Texas Peartree

What did the Ottoman empire call them? Anyone know?


8 posted on 05/15/2011 5:36:23 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: combat_boots

“What did the Ottoman empire call them? Anyone know?”

Yes, for part of the time it was just part of a bigger province called Damascus-Syria. Later in the Ottoman’s rule it was part of another province called Saida (Sidon).


9 posted on 05/16/2011 3:03:43 PM PDT by Texas Peartree
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson