Posted on 10/13/2023 8:24:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
During the past week, I found that even most well informed Americans know very little about the causes of the war between Jews and Arabs in Israel. Here is a summary of 13 basic facts I think every American should know:
I. Until 1964, the word “Palestinian” rarely described Arabs who once lived in Israel. That was when KGB Agents of Communist Russia created and funded a terrorist group called the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Its leader, Yasser Arafat, was born and raised in Egypt. The PLO was as artificial as other effective and deadly groups communists used during the Cold War to take over Algeria, South Africa, Kenya, Vietnam, and Cuba. During this time, the KGB even gave money, weapons, and training to the IRA in Ireland.
II. “Palestine” was never an Arab nation. Until the Roman Empire crushed a Jewish revolt there in the year 132, the land was known as Israel, Judah, or Judea. The Romans renamed the province Palestine to punish the Jews. The Arabs and the Turks kept that name when they conquered and occupied the province. However, they ruled it from distant Mecca, Medina, Baghdad, or Istanbul.
III. Israel or Palestine was ruined and mostly empty after the Jewish revolt. The Arabs and Turks did little to rebuild its cities or irrigation canals. The goats and camels of Arab nomads or Bedouins stripped the land of trees, vegetation, and topsoil. Once rich farmland became malaria-infested swamp or dry wilderness. Less than 10% of the previous population remained. Many were Jews.
IV. Starting in mid-1800s, Jews from Europe and elsewhere in the Middle East began moving back. They bought land from Arab and Turkish absentee owners who had no interest in living there. For the next 90 years, Jews rebuilt cities, roads, and irrigation canals.
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History? Too many today simply look at that as ‘old stuff’ and nor relevant.
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don’t forget that Israel and the American Govt created and armed Hamas in the beginning.
Also don’t forget that Iran was a western style democracy with a fairly elected leader until we orchestrated a revolution there.
If you moved every Israeli Jew to Sinai and gave Israel to the Palis, in 10 years Sinai would be a paradise and Israel would be a s4it&&le with the palis demanding Israel leave Sinai.
In the late 19th century, returning Jews from Europe drained swamps, watered deserts, and planted trees and crops. As Jews made the land prosperous again, thousands of Arabs from Egypt, Syria, and other nearby countries moved there.
When Jews are given their own land, they create prosperity.
RE: don’t forget that Israel and the American Govt created and armed Hamas in the beginning.
And why would Israel want to do that?
Unfortunately, nearly the entirety of Millennial and Gen-Z Social Media has come out FIRMLY on the side of Hamas in all of this.
LOTS OF INFO IN SOCIAL MEDIA FOR FUTURE POSSIBLE EMPLOYERS TO FIND
Every empire that’s enslaved him is gone
Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon
He’s made a garden of paradise in the desert sand
In bed with nobody, under no one’s command
He’s the neighborhood bully.
-Bob Dylan
To weaken Arafat and the PLO.
We helped the Mujahideen in Afghanistan.
Jews make the desert bloom with prosperity.
Muslims make the desert run with blood.
Fake Zionist propaganda.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Palestine
For Example: >>The first written records referring to Palestine emerged in the 12th-century BCE Twentieth dynasty of Egypt, which used the term “Peleset” for the neighboring people or land. In the 8th century BCE, the Assyrians referred to the region as “Palashtu” or “Pilistu”. In the Hellenistic period, these names were carried over into Greek, appearing in the Histories of Herodotus as “Palaistine”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_(region)
Herodotus wrote in 430 BCE, several centuries before the Bar Kokhba Revolt.
>>In the late 19th century, returning Jews from Europe
Israel is a great example of why good border controls on immigration are essential, lest uncontrolled immigration result in a minority population taking over your country.
“Unfortunately, nearly the entirety of Millennial and Gen-Z Social Media has come out FIRMLY on the side of Hamas in all of this.”
Thank a teacher and the NEA. They are destroying this country right in front of our eyes.
you only need one word, Judea...
Wikipedia is useless for religion and politics.
Zec 12:4 In that day, says Jehovah, I will strike every horse with terror, and his rider with madness. And I will open My eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.
Zec 12:5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The people of Jerusalem shall be my strength in Jehovah of Hosts their God.
Zec 12:6 In that day I will make the governors of Judah like a hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire among cut grain. And they shall devour all the peoples all around, on the right hand and on the left hand. And Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her place, in Jerusalem.
Zec 12:7 Jehovah also shall save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the people of Jerusalem may not be magnified above Judah.
Zec 12:8 In that day Jehovah shall defend around the people of Jerusalem. And it will be, he who is feeble among them at that day shall be like David; and the house of David shall be like God, like the Angel of Jehovah before them.
Zec 12:9 And it shall be in that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Didn’t the Brits meddle there too?
“Didn’t the Brits meddle there too?”
many times, meddle they did.
RE: British meddling
That part of the Middle East was under the control of the British Empire. If they didn’t, some other Empire ( e.g. the Ottomans ) certainly would.
My question is this — was the British’ proposed partition of that part of the Middle East wrong-headed? If the answer is yes, my question to you is, in your opinion, HOW should it have been partitioned to have prevented this ongoing enmity?
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