Hadrian's Curse: The Secret All The Arabs Know

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[SJackson]

Hadrian's Curse: The Secret All The Arabs Know

At the Annapolis Conference, President Bush spoke about his vision regarding the virtues of two nations for two peoples.

One of those peoples – the Jewish people – has a clear identity. Yet it would be interesting to know the identity of the second people. Already in 1977, a central spokesman of that “second people” (a PLO leader, Zahir Muhsein, head of the as-Sa’iqa Organization) revealed the truth in an interview to the Dutch newspaper Trouw. Here are his words:

“The Palestinian people do 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, a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa. As a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.”

Are you in shock? If the Palestinian people do not exist, what does exist? Arabs who live in Eretz Yisrael, and who have disguised themselves as“Palestinians” for fraudulent purposes. “Only a means for continuing our struggle against the State of Israel” – in Muhsein’s words. A fraud so successful that even George W. 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 Arab 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 also as a part of southern Syria.” In 1987 he reiterated this at a conference in Amman by saying, “A country named ‘Palestine’ has never existed.” Jordan’s 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 Yasir 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 PLO is fighting Israel in the name of Pan-Arabism. What you call ‘Jordan’ is nothing more than Palestine.”

Such revelations are an eye-opener for anyone who has not understood until now the masked ball being run by the Arabs. The true meaning of Arafat’s words – that Palestine is Jordan – is that for the Arabic people living under the “Pan-Arab” umbrella, in addition to over 20 Arabic countries, there is already a country called Jordan that was established by the British for the Arabs on 78 percent of the Land of Israel. This is land promised to the Jewish people by the League of Nations in 1922.

Anywhere else on earth, could an additional country be established for a people that already has 21 countries?

All the same, there is nothing like the testimony of a PLO founder, Ahmed Shukari. Already in 1956 he proclaimed from the UN podium, as the Arab League’s ambassador there, “Such a creature as Palestine does not exist at all. This land is nothing but the southern portion of Greater Syria…”

And if Ahmed Shukari says that Palestine does not exist at all, the logical inference is that “Palestinians” also do not exist. That same Shukari was born to a Turkish mother in Lebanon, was a Jordanian lawyer, served as the Syrian ambassador to the UN, the Arab League’s ambassador to the UN, and the Saudi’s UN ambassador. In 1964, after this talented actor who changed loyalties like a chameleon was fired by the Saudis, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser hired him to found the PLO, an organization dedicated to the “liberation” of a country that – in his own words – did not even exist.

All the prominent spokesmen of that poor, homeless “people” openly say the following: The Arabs who live in Eretz Yisrael are precisely the same Arabs who live in Syria, Jordan or Lebanon. They are not a separate country, but a fragment of the enormous Arab nation divided among many Arab countries. In their identity they are Arabs, and the invention of Palestine is just a transparent bluff – a means for continuing our struggle against the State of Israel for our Arab unity.

Can any testimony be better than that of the Arabs themselves, by exposing the lies and deceptions involved in Palestine’s creation?

Yet the most compelling argument for the idea that the “Palestinian people” is a fraudulent invention (and that the Arabs are all one people) was expounded by none other than Mr. Husseini, head of the Supreme Arab Committee to the UN special committee that was deliberating on Eretz Yisrael in 1947. Here are his words:

“An additional consideration of great importance for the Arab world is racial uniformity. The Arabs lived in a broad expanse stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean. They spoke one language, and shared a common history, tradition and aspirations. Their unity was the solid foundation for peace in one of the most central and sensitive regions in the world. For that reason, it does not make sense that the United Nations should facilitate the establishment of a foreign entity within that well-rooted unity.”

Indeed, Husseini is correct. His declaration before the UN’s investigative committee exposes the simple fact that there is no “Palestinian” language and no unique “Palestinian” culture. The Palestinians are Arabs, and they cannot be set apart from the Jordanians, Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc.

Remove from the argument the lies, and you reveal that the conflict is taking place between the Arabic, Muslim empire of 21 states and the Jewish people – claiming their right to their one and only historic homeland, consisting of less than one fifth of one percentof the lands under Arab control.

This is the twisted story of the biggest, most unprecedented fraud in history. It involves such a successful bluff that many people have no doubt about its veracity. This propaganda has become a powerful weapon whereby Israel’s enemies, the Arabs, are trying to conquer Eretz Yisrael without firing a shot – and without an army, tanks or jets

Hadrian's Curse: The Arabs' Ultimate Goal (Part II)

Following the Six-Day War, the Arab countries, defeated by a small country determined to survive, understood that Israel would be unbeatable militarily. They understood that the Israeli Samson could only be vanquished through the cunning of the Philistine Delilah. And that’s what happened. Henceforth there would be no more cries firing up the masses to genocide but, instead, a complex melody – carefully aimed at the delicate western ear. The Arabs discovered that it was easier to convince the world of the rights of the poor, small, deprived “Palestinian people” to its own state than to justify the demand of the enormous Arab empire for more territory from a tiny country fighting for its life.

The Palestinian people are a deliberate fabrication of Arab countries defeated in battle, a “Trojan horse” for conquering Eretz Yisrael, as Faisal Husseini said after the Oslo Accords.

So was born the worldwide propaganda campaign that turned matters on their head. The Israeli “David” and Arab “Goliath” begot an Israeli “Goliath” oppressing a Palestinian “David.” The object was to blot out the name and identity of ancient, Biblical Eretz Yisrael, and to turn it into “Palestinian” land.

This lie gained such a strong foothold in the media and the bastions of liberalism that no one has paid any attention to the simple truths spoken openly by Zahir Muhsein, Hafez al-Assad, Ahmed Shukari, King Hussein or Yasir Arafat.

Through brainwashing, fabrications and taking advantage of the world’s ignorance and the international media’s superficiality, a process has been going on in broad daylight for several dozen years of rewriting history. As Goebbels and Hitler, the arch propagandists of the 20th century, said derisively, the bigger the lie, the more people will believe in it.

Feeding the Palestinian lie will put an end to the identity of Eretz Yisrael, and we, in turn, will lose our right to the Land. For if there are “Palestinians,” that means there is also a land called Palestine – and if there is a Palestine, there is no Eretz Yisrael.

The worst part of this is that many Israeli Jews have themselves fallen into the propaganda trap, and it is they who are letting in the Trojan horse that will destroy our Land’s identity. This war is not being waged by means of weapons and armies, or over physical territory. It is being waged on the battlefields of awareness of the Land’s identity. The Roman name “Philistia” was a fiction invented by the Roman emperor Hadrian after the Bar Kochba Revolt in 135 C.E., a fiction of Hadrian then and a fiction – to the same degree – of the Arabs today.

It is a fabrication that represents no people, not then and not today. It was conceived for one purpose only, namely to wipe out a land’s identity. If the land is called Palestine, the Jewish people are occupiers. If it is called Eretz Yisrael, the Arabs are occupiers.

The Palestinian identity is tactical, artificial and temporary, just a tool in the pan-Arab struggle against Israel. The amazing thing is that it’s all out in the open. Section 12 of the Palestinian charter, with these words, summarizes the idea of this temporary identity:

“The Palestinian people believe in Arab unification. It believes that in order to achieve this goal, it must, at this stageof its national struggle, preserve all the components of its Palestinian persona, increase awareness of its existence and reject all plans liable to weaken it or make it disappear.”

Are there another people in the world that writes in its charter the expression, “at this stage?” And what will be in the next stage? Obviously after conquering Israel, the territory will be divided between Arab countries, and those Arab countries will throw Palestine into the dustbin of history.

As Arafat said, the Palestinian people are a fiction. The same goes for the Jordanian people, and all the other Arabic-speaking peoples in the Middle East. They have no separate identities, but are part of the great Arab nation. By their self-definition, they cannot be divided into a number of peoples with individual identities. Rather they constitute one nation consisting of many states, as Arafat himself said in an incautious moment.

For the sophisticated Saudis, with their Saudi Peace Plan, it is clear that its purpose is not to actualize the rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination – for no such people exist. They conceal the truth that the great Arab nation has already actualized its right to self-determination by establishing a large number of countries, one of which extends over about 78 percent of the area of mandatory Eretz Yisrael. For the Arabs, exploding with laughter over the West’s foolishness, it is clear that if an additional Arab state arises in the western portion of Eretz Yisrael, it will not serve the right of self-determination, but rather the demand of imperial conquest of all of Eretz Yisrael by the Arab nation. Is George W. Bush & Co. dragging Israel to its destruction?

The Palestinian lie is exposed precisely when we listen to authentic Arab voices. The prominent Arab historian, Dr. Philip Hitti, expressed himself as follows at the 1947 Anglo-American commission of inquiry at the State Department: “Sir, Palestine never existed throughout history. Absolutely not!”

Professor Juhan Hazam, testifying at that same commission, said, “Before 1917, when Balfour made his declaration, there had never been a Palestinian question, and there was no Palestine as a political or geographic unit.”

A local Arab leader, Abd al-Mahdi, testifying before the 1937 Peel Commission, said, “There is no such land. Palestine is a term invented by the Zionists. There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our land was for hundreds of years a part of Syria.”

Were there the slightest truth to the claim regarding the historicity of a Palestinian people, we should certainly have expected to find it mentioned in the history books, encyclopedias and archaeological research.

Next: Will Israel Finish Hadrian’s Work?

Tsafrir Ronen is a member of the secular kibbutz, Ein Charod. He is a media personality, serves in the elite army unit, Sayeret Matkal, and was one of the founders of the Nahalal Forum on Behalf of the Entire Eretz Yisrael. He is presently preparing a documentary film on the Arab/Palestine myth.

[forkinsocket]

There is no distinct palestinian culture or heritage, distinct from their Arab brothers.

Not very distinct from their fellow Shaami people, but distinct from the rest of the Arab world. This land, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, is known as ash-Sham, land of the sun. The Palestinian culture is part of this group of cultures & dialects. Shaami culture is distinct from the other Arab cultures that can be divided into groups like khaleej, maghreb, jazeera. Gulf, North Africa, Peninsula. No one would mistake a Palestinian for a Maghrebi or a Maghrebi for a Khaleeji. The Palestinian would even have real trouble understanding the dialect of the Maghrebi. You can pick out a Palestinian from other Shaami people by their dialect, but their speech is mutually intelligible for the most part.

What this means is that Palestinians need to be expelled into one of the surrounding countries for good & Israel must force the countries to assimilate them. No more refugee camp crap. Expelling them into Kuwait or Qatar will not work as they will stick out & have lots of trouble being assimilated.

[muawiyah]

Good point on the linguistic differences. Even English speaking people can hear the differences between the Arabic spoken in Jerusalem (for example) and that spoken in most of Egypt.

At the same time the people identified as Palestinians are much more interested in higher education than any other Arabic speaking people (with, it turns out, having college educated people at nearly the same rate as the Jewish population in Israel).

The attitude toward education is not a minor difference imho.

[goldstategop]

Samuel Katz was a biographer of Jewish history and the Middle East conflict. He died last week in Israel. We shall not look upon his likes again.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[forkinsocket]

True, Shaami people have always been more advanced than the other Arabs, Palestinians are no exception. Living in UN-funded refugee camps have turned those Palestinians into unwanted criminals & predators, but the other Palestinians still maintain their educational edge over the Arabs.

[SJackson]

You're beyond my knowledge of palestinian, or Shaami, culture. From a practical standpoint, I don't see expulsion as a viable alternative.

Expulsion aside, settling the Shaami currently residing in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Gaza (unless you want Gaza back), would solve about 75% of the problem.

They could simply live where they live.

[Red Badger]

DNA aside, I've heard I'm 93% gorilla, ...

I dunno about you, but my in-laws certainly are........

[Vigilanteman]

Excellent article and quite correct as well. Syria and Egypt actually were merged into one country called the United Arab Republic from 1958 to 1961. Iraq tried to revive the entity as a three member UAR before the six day war. The myth of Palestine dates from that war.

[colorado tanker]

The Ice Age was tough on the Europeans!

Sure was. Britain has had multiple attempts by humans or ancestors to colonize the place, all previous attempts being unsuccessful. For the life of me I can't understand why Europeans are obsessed with trying to bring on another glacial age. Of course, IMHO, humans don't have the ability to significantly influence climate, so they won't succeed. Another is inevitable, eventually, though.

[Jacob Kell]

>Back on the Iranians, there’s a book out showing differences in 6 populations in Iran. Still, the greater part of the people are essentially the same as the Iraqi Arabs in the South. They simply speak a different language.

Could you tell me more? I believe that both Iraqis and Iranians largely belong to the basically same racial type-Irano-Afghan. Maybe the same pre-Indo-European and pre-Arab people(s) lived in both countries.

[Jacob Kell]

>Shaami culture is distinct from the other Arab cultures that can be divided into groups like khaleej, maghreb, jazeera. Gulf, North Africa, Peninsula.

Could you tell me more about the various Arab peoples? Like what non-Arab ancestry each has, and how much it influences them?

[familyop]

"I admit the DNA aspects are fascinating, but imo irrelevant."

Thanks, and thank you for the post. Even the tangent in this thread is interesting, as to how so many of us in the nations (and people in Israel) have wondered (and wandered) so much with various intents and pursuits--some good, some bad--on the topic of the essence of Jewishness. The unexplained (in worldly terms) magnitude of concern around the world about that is fascinating to me in regarding history and pondering the future.

IMUUOO (in my unqualified, unlearned, outsider opinion), the way to get closer to the answer is to listen to Rabbis, to read, and to meditate on the knowledge. ...not to mention that those are very comforting experiences in the search for all kinds of answers.

[M. Espinola]

We have indeed lost a great Israeli political leader with proven wisdom & keen insight, as well as and one of the founders of modern Israel and a very close friend of Menachem Begin. I met Mr. Shmuel Katz while he was visiting in New York some years ago and we discussed his books & Israel.

Shmuel Katz in 1977

(Shmuel Katz early March 2008)

Description: A celebrated botanist, who had won world fame as the discoverer of “wild wheat,” Aaron Aaronsohn (1876–1919) created the first Jewish Agricultural Experiment Station in Palestine – then under Turkish rule – in 1910. His venture was supported and funded from the u.s. by a group which included Julius Rosenwald, Justices Louis D. Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter (both later on the u.s. Supreme Court), Judah L. Magnes (later President of the Hebrew University), and Henrietta Szold, the founder of Hadassah.

In World War I, reacting against the oppressive Turkish regime, Aaronsohn founded a Jewish spy organization, nili, to help the British in the forthcoming battle for Palestine. Here is told the story of Aaronsohn, who is revealed as a master of strategy, and his sister Sarah, whose self-sacrificing devotion to the cause shows her to be a great historic personality in her own right.

Historian Shmuel Katz here rectifies the absence of a comprehensive biography of Aaronsohn and the nili spy ring. Meticulously researched British War Office intelligence documents and the letters and field reports of nili’s central figures illustrate the crucial contribution made by nili to the British conquest of Palestine.

Powerfully written, with deep sensitivity to the emotional lives of the people portrayed, The Aaronsohn Saga is both solid history and a marvelous read.

About the Author

SHMUEL KATZ was born in South Africa in 1914. He moved to Palestine in 1936 but in 1939, invited by Vladimir Jabotinsky to come to London, he there founded the weekly Jewish Standard to promote the idea of a Jewish national army in the war against Nazi Germany. He returned to Palestine in 1946. A journalist, author, translator, historian, political activist, and book publisher, he has enjoyed a multifaceted career spanning many disciplines. A member of the High Command of the Irgun Zvai Leumi, member of the first Israeli Knesset, and advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1977, Katz has been intimately involved in the entire history of the modern State of Israel.

His books, written in both English and Hebrew and translated into other languages as well, include Days of Fire, Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine, Battletruth: The World and Israel, the Hollow Peace, and Lone Wolf: A Biography of Vladimir Gefen Publishing House (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky.

[Biggirl]

All the British and latter the UN was doing was simply allowing the Jewish people to go home to their homeland. Thus they helped put into reality what Ezekial Chapter 37 spoke about, the famous valley of the dry bones which is said to be about the restoration of the Isreal homeland.

[BroJoeK]

"“The Palestinian people do 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"

Thanks for an interesting post. I'm certain a little research could uncover more such quotes.

Of course there was no Arab "Palestine" before recent years. At different times the area was divided up into parts of different provinces of the old Ottoman Turk Empire. Most of it belonged to the province of Syria, but other parts were in other provinces.

Israel exists as a country today because of the British victory in W.W.I, and the associated Balfour Declaration. Note again the unequivocal words:

Balfour Declaration

"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object,

it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."

[Bringbackthedraft]

The Ice Age was tough on the Europeans! ................. It may be true about most of them, but, it had no effect on those of us who migrated here on the Great Ice Ship. LOL

[SJackson]

Yes, neither the declaration, and more importantly the Mandate accepted by the Brits to create a Jewish State mentions much of anything about Arabs, much less palestinians. In fact the Brits referred to the Jews as palestinians, the Arabs being Arabs.

[muawiyah]

Absolutely. They are all derived from the same basic population that was in the Eastern Mediterranean refugia.

There have been migrations into the region. The people who invented writing (the Sumerians) and also planted civilization along the Euphrates were a migratory people who followed herds from far in the SE all the way to ice sheets in the far North (according to their own records written down thousands of years ago).

[YankeeinOkieville]

mark for future reference - “faked Pali”

[tang-soo]

DNA tests show a different situation. The Jews, per se, are not terribly different from the Arabs in the area.

You mean like Isaac being the half brother of Ishmael and the twin brothers Jacob and Esau, the grandchildren of Abraham? Not a different situation at all.