Posted on 05/15/2008 8:54:53 AM PDT by Nachum
(IsraelNN.com) A new Hamas television show for children teaches that Tel Aviv was an Arab city called Tel Al-Rabi before Jews took it over. The city actually was founded by Jews in 1909 outside the former Arab-dominated city of Yafo.
In the video clip, translated by The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), the grandfather of a bunny says, "We used to live in the most beautiful place in Palestine…. This place was called Tel Al-Rabi, but the Zionists and Jews Hebraicized the name to Tel Aviv…. I have documents and proof. I have all the papers here. The documents are right here with me…. [The Jews] invented all these names. Ashdod is, in fact, Isdud. Ashkelon is, in fact, Al-Majdal."
What were they called before Muhammed invented Islamofascism?
“Even Old New York was once New Amsterdam...why they changed it I can’t say...people just liked it better that way”
More BS from Hamas!
Israel didn’t exist in 1909 did it? What was the name of the country where the city was in 1909?
Because the Dutch lost it to the British.
During the Cold War, the Unitied States had “Radio Free Europe” to broadcast information into eastern Europe and the Soviet Union to counter the disinformation of the communists. Although it was frequently jammed and getting caught listening to it carried penalties, the West never shut down the service as long as eastern Europe was behind the Iron Curtain.
Does Israel have anything similar to deal with lies like this? While it is informative for me to know this, what is critical is for Arabs to hear - or at least have the chance to hear - the falsehoods disputed when the occur. One might say that MEMRI on the the Internet counterbalanced the Arab broadcast/cable media but I’m not sure that is so...
The Dutch never “lost” New York. They saw better business in that location under the British. Strictly a business move to rename the place.
Correct. The Dutch sold it to us for rights in the Spice islands, or something like that. Or maybe Ceylon.
It wasn’t a country in 1909. It was a region the Romans named after the Philistines to piss of the Jews. In 1909 it was inhabited by Jews and Arab occupiers.
And “Hamas” in Hebrew means “rear end of a swine”.
Under Ottoman (Turkish) rule until the Brits replaced them.
> the grandfather of a bunny says...
LOL!!! Here DownUnder, calling someone a “bunny” is a mildly-abusive pejorative, for which I know of no direct US equivalent. Closest might be “doofus” or “dumbass”, but it doesn’t quite capture the fluffy essence of true “bunny-dom”.
It’s not often Hamas gives me a cause for pants-wetting humor in the morning, so today is a remarkable occasion!
ROTFLMAOPMP!
And under British rule until the Israeli’s won independence.
“Why did Constantinople get the works?”
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks!
But what about the claim of the Canaanites and their god Baal?? We should do a title search at least back that far!!!
“Lost” wasn’t not the best choice of words on my part. I meant it changed hands.
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