Posted on 02/09/2022 6:12:16 AM PST by SJackson
Reprinted from jns.org - Originally published under the title "The Palestinians' Appropriation of History Is a Vital Tool in Their War against the Jews."
The use of tropes and the appropriation of history have frequently been used by totalitarian regimes to inspire their people to strive for victory.
The Nazis often used medieval Norse imagery and mythology, as well as the construction of the idea that they were descendants of a pure Nordic race, to promote their ideology. They further developed the idea of Aryanism, an ideology of racial superiority whereby the Aryan people required a separate and expanding territory—Lebensraum—for their growth and development.
At the center of Lebensraum was the concept of liberating conquered lands of all non-Aryan people, chiefly Jews, in the name of a purified state for the development of the "master race." It was settler colonialism at its most racist and genocidal, and it was all backed by a self-created pseudo-history.
Now, another people seek to purge territory of Jews in the name of settler colonialism, and rewrite history to try and justify its violence.
According to Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), the Palestinian Authority has long created a fictitious history for itself. The PA claims Palestinians to be unique in the annals of history, being the only people to have defeated many of the greatest empires.
At the recent Palestinian Martyrs' Day ceremony in Ramallah, PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh, speaking in the name of PA leader Mahmoud Abbas, said that the Romans, Greeks, Persians, Pharaohs, Hyksos and Tatars were all defeated by the Palestinians.
"We have defeated all the invaders who passed through the land of Palestine," Shtayyeh reportedly said, according to PMW. "On behalf of the Martyrs, we will defeat this hated occupation [Israel] that will leave our land."
It is well known and not in dispute that a distinct Palestinian identity is little more than 100 years old. Such attempts to insert themselves into millennia of history would be merely amusing if it didn't preface the real intentions behind the falsification.
Since the collapse of Maccabean kingdom, until the State of Israel was established, Palestine was always controlled by somebody else, some foreign invaders.
Romans, Byzantines, Persians, Arabs, Crusaders, Turks, Britons. One invader driving out the previous one.
When Christ returns they will be removed and it isn’t gonna be pretty. Though it will be for the Lord’s glory.
One of these two peoples are going to be evicted from the territory they both claim.
So many hope to burn down civilization just so they can rule over the ashes.
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