Israel Must End The ‘Palestinian’ Charade: The “Palestinian refugees” are neither Palestinians nor refugees

It is welcome news that Sweden’s Aid Minister, Benjamin Dousa, has said that Sweden will no longer fund UNRWA, apparently satisfied with Israel’s evidence that it has been a HAMAS front. The Arabs there need not worry, though, because Sweden is going to increase the amount of its aid, only using other agencies.

Lucky for them. However, Israel could help itself by going further and attacking the very idea that the recipients of UNRWA largesse are “Palestinian refugees” entitled to such aid when there are virtually no refugees among them. And in any case, there is nothing Palestinian about them.

History explains why there is nothing “Palestinian” about these people on the UNRWA rolls. In 1948, when the armies of five surrounding Arab states attacked Israel, there were in Israel thousands of foreign, overwhelmingly unskilled, and illiterate migrant workers in the country who had come into Mandatory Palestine looking for work.

These workers did not want to be caught in the middle of the fighting. Because they were migrants who did not own and did not have to worry about immovable property, they ran behind enemy lines in the belief that the Arab armies would murder all the Jews in a few days. Then, they could run back to loot all the Jews’ property and possessions. (As we saw on October 7, 2023, following the Muslim Brotherhood rapists, torturers, and arsonists, masses of unarmed Muslims followed to loot the possessions of the dead Jews.)

Unfortunately for the migrants, things in 1948-49 did not work out as the migrant workers had hoped. The neonate Jewish army stopped the Arab invaders, ceasefire agreements were signed, and the migrant workers were caught behind Arab enemy lines, with none of the Arab states taking responsibility for their welfare.

WIKI

On 1 April 1945, the British administration’s statistics showed that Jewish buyers had legal ownership over approximately 5.67% of the Mandate’s total land area, while state domain (a large part of which was held in hereditary lease or had undetermined ownership) was 46%

In 1881 the Ottoman governmental administration (the Sublime Porte) decreed that foreign Jews could immigrate to and settle anywhere within the Ottoman Empire, except in Palestine and from 1882 until their defeat in 1918, the Ottomans continuously restricted Jewish immigration and land purchases in Palestine. In 1892, the Ottoman government decided to prohibit the sale of land in Palestine to Jews, even if they were Ottoman citizens. Nevertheless, during the late 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, many successful land purchases were made through organizations such as the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association (PJCA), Palestine Land Development Company and the Jewish National Fund.

In 1918, after the British conquest of Palestine, the military administration closed the Land Register and prohibited all sale of land. The Register was reopened in 1920, but to prevent speculation and ensure a livelihood for the fellahin, an edict was issued forbidding the sale of more than 300 dunams of land or the sale of land valued at more than 3000 Palestine pounds without the approval of the High Commissioner.

By the end of the British Mandate period in 1948, Jewish farmers had cultivated 425,450 dunams of land, while Arab farmers had 5,484,700 dunams of land under cultivation.

“The shortage of land is due less to purchase by Jews than to the increase in the Arab population. The Arab claims that the Jews have obtained too large a proportion of good land cannot be maintained. Much of the land now carrying orange groves was sand dunes or swamps and uncultivated when it was bought.

“Legislation vesting surface water in the High Commissioner is essential.”

— Report of the Palestine Royal Commission, July 1937

map showing Jewish owned land in 1944 at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_land_purchase_in_Palestine

Look at their history. "Palestinians" do not relocate, they infiltrate.

The so-called "Palestinians" are simply Syrian and Jordanian trouble-makers who were kicked out of those countries for following the paramilitary group Fatah led by Yasser Arafat (a native of Egypt) in the 1960s.

In 1957, Arafat obtained a work visa to enter Kuwait as a civil engineer. While in Kuwait he met up with two old friends from Cairo and formed Fatah, a resistance group dedicated to armed struggle to "liberate Palestine." By the time Arafat moved his operations to Syria in 1962, he had amassed a following of about 300 people.

While in Syria, Arafat continued to recruit new members. In December 1964, Arafat began to attempt raids from Syria to infiltrate Israel. Arafat was eventually arrested for the murder of a Syrian military officer who was conducting meetings to ease tensions between Arafat and other faction leaders. Arafat was convicted and was sentenced to death, but was pardoned by the President of Syria. Arafat moved his operations to the West Bank territory of Jordan.

In November 1966, Fatah launched a roadside bomb attack from Jordanian territory which killed three members of the Israeli security forces. Israel retaliated with a raid into the Jordanian-controlled West Bank, where dozens of Jordanian security forces were killed and 125 homes were razed. This engagement was one of the precursors to the Six Day War that led to Israel gaining control of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank/Golan Heights. After the other Palestinian political factions collapsed as a result of defeat to Israel, Arafat snuck into the West Bank and began recruiting more fighters for Fatah. At this point, Egypt's President Nasser proclaimed Yasser Arafat to be the "leader of the Palestinians."

The Jordanian military sided with Arafat as Fatah continued attacks against Israeli forces in the occupied areas of the West Bank. Israel was planning a major attack against Fatah's headquarters in the Jordanian town of Karameh, which was launched after an Israeli school bus hit a Fatah mine, killing two children. The attack was ultimately a draw despite Israeli forces destroying Arafat's camp in Karameh. Israeli forces withdrew at the end of the day, and Jordan and Fatah declared a political victory and Arafat was elected as the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

Arafat and Fatah, joined by other sympathetic paramilitary groups, began asserting themselves in the civil life of Jordan, essentially creating a state-within-a-state. King Hussein of Jordan offered Arafat the position of Deputy Prime Minister of Jordan, but Arafat refused citing his desire for a self-ruled Palestinian state. By 1970, Arafat's militancy continued to grow within Jordan, including airplane hijackings. In August 1970, Arafat declared: "Our basic aim is to liberate the land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River..." In 1971, Arafat called for King Hussein to be overthrown. Hussein responded by ordering the Jordanian military to oust Arafat and his followers from Jordan. Arafat and 2,000 followers eventually fled Jordan for Lebanon.

Because of Lebanon's weak central government, the PLO was able to operate virtually as an independent state. Arafat formed Black September, the military wing of Fatah to take revenge upon King Hussein and the Jordanian Armed Forces in northern Jordan. Black September later committed the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre of 11 Israeli athletes.

After that, Arafat aligned the PLO with Lebanese rebels during their civil war in the late 1970s. From Lebanon, Arafat continued to launch attacks into Israel, causing Israel to launch counter-attacks into southern Lebanon to push Arafat north into Beirut. In 1982, Israeli forces eventually laid seige to Beirut to capture Arafat, and the Lebanese government negotiated a safe-passage ceasefire with Israel to expel Arafat and the PLO to Tunisia.

Arafat then settled in Tunisia where he orchestrated a movement of coordinated riots and civil uprisings in Gaza and the West Bank in Israel consisting of throwing stones, Molotov cocktails, and burning tires. At this point, a new paramilitary militant group called Hamas emerged and began targeting Israeli civilians with the new tactic of suicide bombings.

After Arafat sided with Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, other Arab nations cut off funding of Arafat and the PLO. After Arafat signed the 1993 Oslo Accords, he relocated to the Gaza Strip, and later Ramallah where he died in 2004.

In 2005, Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip and turned control of the area over to Fatah. In 2007, Fatah was defeated by Hamas, an Islamic Jihadist group that instituted Islam Law, forced out all Christian schools and businesses, and began its campaign of continuous indiscriminate rocket attacks against Israel.

The point of all this is that the so-called "Palestinians" are really the descendants of cast-off radicals from Egypt, Syria, Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia. Let those countries take them in again. They cause trouble wherever they go, and we don't need them to gain a foothold anywhere else to continue their Jihad from within their new "adopted" country.

-PJ

Arabs refer to peoples of Arab ancestry who speak Arabic, not simply Saudis. So Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon & others are all Arab states—as the ancestors of the Arab populations there conquered and colonized all these lands in the 7th & 8th Centuries.

Before the Jews started BUYING (not stealing) land in what is now Israel in the late 19th C., what was part of the Ottoman (not Arabs) Empire, it was a wasteland, with very few living there. When the Jews started to develop things, Arabs started coming in to Palestine for work. The few who had lived there for generations were mostly renters—from wealthy Arab land owners. Before 1947 nearly all the Jewish land there was PURCHASED. Since in ‘47 Palestine was British land—won when the Ottoman Empire collapsed in WWI, and they, through the UN, gave the land for a Jewish state. Of course the surrounding Arab states went to war with Israel...and lost, as they did again in ‘67, ‘73, & other times since. The Arabs on the losing side (150,000 sided with Israel) eventually took up the name “Palestinians” and took on permanent “refugee” status (for 77 years now...), continually denying Israel’s right to exist. They’ve been offered a 2 state solution from all throughout the 77 years of Israel’s existence, always to deny it-—as their leaders swore to annihilate Israel and the Jews living there.

SO NO, people who support terrorists and the annihilation of Israel DO NOT “have as much right to the land as Israel does.” All the Arab nations around Israel had their boundaries set up by the British in the ‘20s & ‘30s, but it took until after WWII for Israel’s boundaries to be set—by the UN this time, in ‘47. So the borders of all the other various nations around are no more, or less, legitimate—than those of Israel.

However, those who’ve refused, for generations, to make peace with the Jews...do not have a “right” to Israeli land, period. (and I couldn’t care less that Arabs & Jews are all “Semites” as that’s not a recognized people group today.) Palestinian Arabs however are mercilessly anti-Jewish, however, and that’s a fact. They would butcher every man, woman and child in Israel, given the chance—as Oct. 7 illustrated. Israeli Jews are NOT anti-Arab....and hundreds of thousands of Arabs live in Israel today. Israel has not tried to take land from other surrounding Arab countries—and in fact gave land back to Egypt...after they took it when Egypt attacked them in the 6-day War.

As the saying goes, if the Arabs fighting Israel now...would lay down their arms, killing would cease and peace would reign in the area. If, however the Jews were to lay down their arms—we’d have the biggest genocide the world has ever seen.

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