Thanks SeekAndFind.
Posted on 05/01/2018 11:56:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As Philip Klein points out, it’s a good thing that this “history lesson” comes from the Left’s favorite Palestinian moderate. Lord knows how this would have unfolded with a less rational personage than Mahmoud “Abu Mazen” Abbas. The Palestinian leader opened the first Palestinian National Council in 22 years yesterday, hoping to firm up his credibility enough to establish his preferred line of succession as well as unite Palestinians under his leadership. And what better way to accomplish this than some unadulterated and absolutely bat-s*** crazy anti-Semitic conspiracy theories?
In a long and rambling at speech in Ramallah at a rare session of the Palestinian National Council, Abbas touched on a number of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories during what he called a “history lesson,” as he sought to prove the 3,000 year-old Jewish connection to the Land of Israel is false. …
Pointing to Arthur Kessler’s book “The Thirteenth Tribe,” which asserts Ashkenazi Jews are descended from Khazars, Abbas said European Jews therefore had “no historical ties” to the Land of Israel.
Abbas tied this together this by arguing that the creation of Israel was a European strategy to colonize the Middle East for themselves, pointing to the Balfour Declaration as proof. That at least has some connection to reality, but it ignores two very salient facts. First, Jews had lived in the region for millennia, and not just in the narrow places within the mandate where the British and French planned for a Jewish homeland under their control. Second, it was almost literally the worst possible land in the region for colonization, having no material mineral or agrarian value (until the Israelis developed the latter on the kibbutzim, which first launched a few years before the Balfour Declaration). The Brits in particular were more interested in the oil fields of Iraq, which … is an entirely different topic.
Abbas then went on to put the blame for the Holocaust not on the Nazis, but … on the Jews themselves for their “social behavior” and sweet, sweet greed:
He went on to claim that the Holocaust was not the result of anti-Semitism but rather of the Jews “social behavior, [charging] interest, and financial matters.”
I bet Hamas and Islamic Jihad regret boycotting this now! At least Abbas actually acknowledged that the Holocaust occurred at all. But wait — it gets better, or worse, depending on your affinity for insanity. Not only was Israel a European colonial project, you’ll never guess who was behind it:
However, on Monday, Abbas claimed that Adolf Hitler, whose Nazi regime was response for the murder of 6,000,000 Jews in the Holocaust, facilitated the immigration of Jews to Israel by reaching a deal with the Anglo-Palestine Bank (today Bank Leumi) under which Jews who moved to the British Mandate of Palestine could transfer all their assets there through the bank.
Ahem. The Nazis certainly took an interest in the assets of Jews, right down to their gold teeth, but it wasn’t to transfer them to someone else’s banks.
If anyone wants to know why Israel-Palestinian peace efforts have gone nowhere during Abbas’ reign, this seems like a pretty good demonstration. Despite forced declarations recognizing Israel’s right to exist, Abbas repeatedly rejects its legitimacy and that of Israelis when dealing internally with Palestinians, offering an annihilationist posture for domestic consumption. The Palestinian National Council only offered a rare open window on Abbas’ insanity.
Klein scoffs at the shock, shock coming from the Left over Abbas’ rhetoric:
Reading these stories, liberals have been putting on their shocked faces, as if this is some surprising new turn for Abbas. But that Abbas holds these beliefs should not be a surprise to anybody. Back in 1982, he wrote a dissertation arguing the Holocaust was exaggerated and claiming there was a secret relationship between Zionists and Nazis. This even though the leader of Arabs in the region during World War II was quite literally allied with a Adolf Hitler , and there’s actually photographic evidence.
Abbas, who is 82, will fade from the scene at some point. But it won’t stop liberals and their allies in the media from propping up some other Jew-hating, terrorist-celebrating , Palestinian leader as a “moderate” who is dedicated to peace.
Unfortunately, all too true. Fortunately, however, that schtick isn’t playing in the halls of power outside of Tehran and Damascus any longer — not in Riyadh, and thankfully not in Washington DC.
Kind words from a “partner in peace”.
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem met with Hitler in November 1941. At that time the Grand Mufti wanted to convince Hitler to exterminate the Jews of Europe, because the Jews who were leaving Europe were ending up in Jerusalem, where the Arabs and the Jews were fighting for Palestine. In 1917 The Balfur Declaration had guaranteed the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine. Up to 1941 Hitler was deporting Jews to the Palestine region in keeping with Balfur. Turmoil erupted in the region as a result of the deportations. This turmoil was upsetting Hitler’s plans for oil. The Grand Mufti’s words changed the fate of the Jews. Instead of deporting the Jews, exterminating them became the policy. That bias against the Jews, which originated in Palestine, is widespread in Europe.
With all the Sephardic Jews living in Israel, whose parents and grandparents were kicked out of the Arab nations in the 1940s, I don’t think it matters much where the Ashkenazi Jews come from.
From what I have read, DNA testing has turned up zero evidence of any Khazar ancestry among modern Ashkenazi Jews, but plenty of evidence connecting them with the southern Levant--the Holy Land.
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Given the fact that Israel was majority Sephardic until at least after the fall of the Soviet Union. Some think European Jews are still a minority of Isreali Jews, given the fact that about a third of the Russian emigres aren't religiously Jewish, Abbas' point is not only historically false, but but off the point.
So Abbas “evidence” is a widely disputed tome written with its falsehoods to intentionally discredit the historic link of all Jews to Palestine. The author of that tome failed and so does Abbas.
There is no such thing as a palestinian. It’s a fiction.
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Eff abbas and his family.
The Assyrians spread their dominion to the south as far as Ethiopia and Aden (Eden). The Assyrians crossed the Caucasus -- this is known from Assyrian inscriptions themselves. In one of the Arab geographer-travellers of the Middle Ages I found confirmation of my view that the Volga was the river Gozan. The confluence of the Volga is where the equally wide Kama joins the Volga. Thus the "confluence of the river Gozan" was at the point where the city of Kazan is located. Not far on the Volga is also a city Samarra. This land had a Jewish kingdom of Khazars in the 6th to 12th centuries, which was visited by Benjamin of Tudela, the Spanish Jewish traveller. He claimed to have found the Ten Tribes. The region of Scythia and Sarmatia abounds in Assyrian relics of the seventh century B.C.E. The Khazars are supposed to have acquired their Jewish religion in the Christian era. However the names of the Khazar kings reveal names found among the Israelites in the days of the Jewish kings of the eighth pre-Christian century, not names of the later periods, like the Hellenistic or Roman (Matathiam, Hillel, Gamliel), It appears that Persian Jews in the Persian time established contact with the Israelites on the Volga.
Gozan | Immanuel Velikovsky | Collected Essays | A Historical-Geographical Dictionary
I would like to express here the belief that excavation in or around Samara on the Volga may disclose Hebrew signs of the eighth and seventh centuries before the present era. Other sites of old settlements on the Volga, too, may disclose remnants of old Hebrew culture.
The Hebrew (most probably also Assyrian) name for the Volga, Gozan, seems to have survived in the name Kazan. The city Kazan is located to the north of Samara, a very short distance beyond the place of confluence of the Volga and the Kama, two equally large streams. A tributary by the name Kazanka, or "small Kazan," flows there into the Volga.
In the days of the Khazar realm, the river Volga was called not by its Assyrian, nor by its present name, but by the name Etel (the name is given also as Itil or Atil). This name appears to derive from a Semitic root; it is also used by the medieval Arab geographers.
Many place names in southern Russia seem to be of Hebrew derivation. The name of the river Don may go back to the name of the Israelite temple-city Dan. The Caspian Sea is best explained as "The Silver Sea" from the Hebrew caspi (of silver). Rostov means "The Good Harbor" in Hebrew. Orel, read in Hebrew, would mean "uncircumcised" ; Saratov may mean "to make an incision." With our identification of Gozan -- one of the places of exile of the Ten Tribes -- as the Volga, we may now investigate the question, what place is Khalakh, the other place of exile mentioned in II Kings 17:6? This place name is generally regarded as unidentifiable...
The land on the eastern coast of the Black Sea was called Colchis in ancient times, and the region is still known by this name. In Russian literature it is called Kolkhida.
I consider western Georgia -- to which Colchis belongs, to be the Biblical Khalakh...
In the mountainous region of western Georgia, adjacent to the Colchian coast, live the so-called Georgian, or Mountain Jews. They claim to be of the Ten Tribes of Israel, their ancestors having been exiled there upon the destruction of the kingdom of Israel by the Assyrians. Ben Zvi (the second president of the modern state of Israel) tells of these people and their claims. He writes that "there is no reason to doubt the existence of a continuous Jewish settlement in both the north and south of Caucasia, whose roots were laid in very ancient times, perhaps as early as the days of the Second Temple, perhaps even earlier." Yet he does not express any suspicion that Khalakh may have been Colchis.
Beyond the Mountains of Darkness | Immanuel Velikovsky | Collected Essays
I made inquiries on the subject both in Colchis and in Egypt, and I found that the Colchians had a more distinct recollection of the Egyptians, than the Egyptians had of them... the Colchians, the Egyptians, and the Ethiopians, are the only nations who have practised circumcision from the earliest times... I will add a further proof to the identity of the Egyptians and the Colchians. These two nations weave their linen in exactly the same way, and this is a way entirely unknown to the rest of the world; they also in their whole mode of life and in their language resemble one another. The Colchian linen is called by the Greeks Sardinian, while that which comes from Egypt is known as Egyptian.
Histories | book II: Euterpe | Herodotus | translation by George Rawlinson | transcription by Daniel C. Stevenson
Thanks SeekAndFind.
Some might assume that Koestler’s “descended from the Khazars” theory was based on some sort of animus against Jews but in fact he intended it as a counter to racial anti-Semitism. Koestler himself was a non-practicing English Jew, born in Hungary. His two autobiographical volumes are very good.
1 The Khazar theory ...? Asides from debunked by DNA linking most European Jews to 4 mothers... The never broken chain of antisemitism by Christians upto post WW2 was originally based on the idea of killing Jesus, supposedly. Which is the 100% contradiction to “khazarism”.
2. Khazar theory means that any convert to Judaism has a right to his spiritual Patriarchs’ land which is the opposite of race and racialization falsehood anti-Israel haters try to libelous-label.
3. Side note: Most Israelis are not European.
4. Why is Arabizing the land of Judea not racist but judaizing is a supposed problem?
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