Israel in the Crosshairs, Part 2B: More Forgotten History
A TRAGEDY OF THEIR OWN MAKING: THE ARABS’ REFUSALS
Even though Palestine was never a nation, so Arabs living in Gaza and the West Bank cannot be bereft of a nation that never existed, they are nevertheless in a predicament, and that is true whether we call them Palestinians or Egyptians, Jordanians, or simply Arabs. So how did that predicament come about, and who bears responsibility for it?
As Victor Sharpe reminds us: “…the Arab League, meeting in Khartoum in August 1967, delivered the infamous three no’s: No peace with Israel, no negotiations with Israel, no recognition of Israel. From 1937, Israeli politicians have five times offered the Arabs a state. Five times the Arabs have rejected the Israeli offers. The reason being the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians want no state next to Israel. They want no Jewish state to exist. Period!” (Emphasis mine)
And from Dr. Sergio Simon’s open letter to Queen Rania of Jordan:
Instead of absorbing them [the Palestinian refugees] into the Jordanian society, they were kept under inhumane conditions in concentration camps to pressure Israel and the United Nations. Nobody wanted the Palestine “problem” solved. … there were also the Jewish refugees from the Arab countries as well!
Hundreds of thousands of Jews had to flee Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Algeria, Tunisia, Yemen and Morocco without anything, leaving behind all their belongings and properties… But Israel did not put them in camps. They were readily absorbed in the Israeli society and today…they are lawyers, doctors, teachers, university professors in Israel. There is no more a “Jewish refugee” problem. This could have happened with the poor Palestinians had King Hussein in Jordan, Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt and Shukri al-Kwatli and Hafez al-Assad in Syria done the same.
ARAFAT’S GAME OF CAT AND MOUSE
What is the ultimate goal of the Palestinians? Is it possession of their own state?
If so, why did Yassar Arafat agree to the1993 Oslo Accords and then promptly violate virtually all the agreements? And why did he turn down the Camp David II Accords in 2000 proffered under Ehud Barak working alongside President Clinton? That plan would have given the Palestinians 97% of Gaza and the West Bank and a Palestinian Authority (PA) capitol in East Jerusalem. This was everything they’d asked for with a cherry on top! Only 3% shy of the UN’s original plan for a Palestinian state, yet Arafat responded with the Second Intifada.
More telling yet, when Clinton tried making the plan even more appealing to the Arabs, Arafat reportedly admitted in a phone conversation with Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to Washington, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, that it was “the best offer imaginable.” (Meir-Levi: History Upside Down p. 98) Yet Arafat rejected it cold and stepped up the violence. Why?
It would seem that the PLO, and its offshoot the PA, have been playing cat and mouse with Israel for decades. And according to high-ranking Communist defector Ion Mihai Pacepa, this is not by accident:
Brezhnev, according to Pacepa, carried it one step farther when Carter came into office. He suggested to Pacepa that Carter might fall for Yassir Arafat PRETENDING to renounce violence and pretending to seek peace negotiations. He persuaded Arafat to do this by telling him that the West would shower him with gold and glory. It did. Billions of dollars and a Nobel prize. Ceausescu warned Arafat he would have to pretend over and over again. Abbas is still pretending. (Emphasis mine)
This kind of pretense is also sanctioned in the Koran, as Taqiya—the act of lying for a supposedly worthy goal. But what is the goal, if not a Palestinian state?
The utter and complete destruction of Israel through genocide against the Jews.
This appeals to those Arabs who dream of annihilating Israel and creating a worldwide Muslim Caliphate. Furthermore, it fits in with the Globalist/Leftist plan for a One World Government, entailing the eradication of Western civilization of which Biblical Israel has served as a cornerstone. And of course Christianity itself rests upon its Jewish roots.
The decades-long unresolved conflict between Israel and the Palestinians could almost be likened to the dysfunctional relationship between a battered wife and her abusive spouse. And this is why Israel ought never to have “disengaged” from the Gaza Strip, or ceded control of the Philadelphi Corridor on the Egyptian border. As Victor Sharpe points out: “It is under this corridor that Hamas [has] dug hundreds of tunnels through which they smuggle their weapons into Gaza.” Nor should Israel have agreed to a cease-fire and hostage/prisoner exchange before its mission to take down Hamas is complete.
Predictably, in the aftermath of October 7th, the Palestinian psy-op came into play: the jihadist terrorists shape-shifted instantly into the poor, stateless Palestinians. That’s been the game for some 50 years, and that’s what just happened, quick as a wink, after Hamas’ horrifically savage attack on innocent Israeli civilians, including women, children and even babies, many of whom were burned to death after being raped, brutalized, and dismembered.
Amazingly, within a day or two or three, the international hue and cry was for protection for the poor, innocent…Palestinians!
There’s always been tremendous pressure put on Israelis to play nice with people who’ve sworn to kill them. Certainly America is guilty of this—O’Biden in spades—but so is Israel’s own Deep State, comprised, like our own, of Leftists with their own “progressive” globalist agenda.
A FEW UNDENIABLE FACTS
Take a look at the map of the Middle East and North Africa as shown in Part 2A. What jumps out to the naked eye is how huge Saudi Arabia, Iran and Egypt are, with Iraq and Syria not far behind. Jordan is a little smaller, yet it dwarfs the teeny, tiny sliver on the map that is Israel, in an odd configuration with part of its heart, Judea and Samaria, aka the West Bank, cut out.
There Israel sits, surrounded by a hornets’ nest of hostile Arab Muslim countries, not to mention jihadist Palestinians within its very border. It’s dizzying to count the number of times Arab nations have attacked the Jewish state, or how many times Israel has offered them land in exchange for peace, which they’ve turned down again and again. Why? Because their goal is not peace or land per se: their goal is the annihilation of Israel.
How do we know this?
The Arabs themselves have said so over and over. Take a look at the Muslim Brotherhood charter, not to mention that of the PLO or Hamas—the latter even made it into an Atlantic article entitled “Understanding Hamas’s Genocidal Ideology.” And their actions match their words, as we were reminded on October 7th of this year, the latest in attacks and wars going back to the 1920s when the idea of a Jewish state took shape, and again in 1947, 1948-49, 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982, and 2006, not to mention the frequent bombings, missiles, and sporadic terrorist attacks. Is that enough proof yet to take them at their word?
By looking at the record of unprovoked Arab violence against Israel, how can we blithely accept the narrative that asks us to view Arabs as victims while damning Israel with the slurs of “oppressor” and “aggressor”?
Whom are we going to believe, the New York Times? CNN? MSNBC? The BBC? The UN? Al Jazeera? Iran? Arafat speaking from the grave through next-generation terrorists? Or our own eyes….
ARABS LIVING IN ISRAEL: APARTHEID? OOPS…NO
The fact that some two million Arabs live in Israel and enjoy full citizenship is proof positive that Jews and Arabs can live together in peace. One can find a number of Israeli Arabs who have only praise for Israel. Here’s one that may surprise you: an Arab Muslim who’s an IDF captain!
However, jihadist Arab Muslims can live in peace with no one—not even their brother Arabs, which is why they were chased out of Jordan and Lebanon, and why to this day, no Arab state wants to open its doors to the terrorist-spawning Palestinians.
PREDICAMENT OF THE PALESTINIANS: WHO’S TO BLAME?
It is perhaps not an exaggeration to say that the Arab leadership manipulated, exploited and abused the Palestinians beginning in 1947, first by enticing them to leave their homes in anticipation of the promised annihilation of Israel—after which they were told they’d reclaim their homes plus inherit the spoils of Jewish property—then by placing them in “refugee camps” and denying them entry into surrounding Arab nations. And that this systematic abuse has created a monster even they cannot control, but continue to exploit in their unending war against Israel.
The Arab refugee issue goes back to 1949 when Israel offered to return the Arab lands it conquered in the war for its survival, in exchange for a peace treaty. As David Meir-Levi puts it: “This would have allowed hundreds of thousands of refugees to return to their homes. The Arabs said no…”. Instead, they were planning their next winner-take-all war against Israel, which they launched in 1956.
Meir-Levi goes on to say:
At the Lausanne conference in August 1949, Israel again offered to repatriate a hundred thousand refugees even without a peace treaty. The Arab states refused again because such a negotiation would have involved a tacit recognition of the State of Israel. Instead, the Arabs insisted on maintaining the refugees in their squalor and suffering…. (Meir-Levi, History Upside Down, p. 74)
Moreover, as some Arabs were candid enough to announce in public, the refugee problem would serve as “a festering sore on the backside of Europe,” easily converted to moral leverage in the effort to win the emotional support of the West against Israel. (Meir-Levi, History Upside Down, p. 75)
And in a Wall St. Journal Op-Ed, Fred Baumann describes the situation this way:
Rejected by their fellow Arabs, who largely kept them cooped up in camps and fed a diet of hatred and revenge from birth, Palestinians were meant to be a tool for a war of total destruction against the Jewish state. Eventually, the plan backfired and, after the (barely) failed attempt of radicalized Palestinians to overthrow the Jordanian monarchy, they became too dangerous to absorb. To this day, they suffer from their exclusion by their fellow Arabs, while directing their passionate hatred toward Israel.
Within those squalid camps where they were warehoused by Arab leaders, the Palestinians fed upon anger, hatred, envy and vengeance, while their leaders turned down every opportunity Israel offered to ameliorate their situation, including giving them their own territory.
In this climate, terrorist organizations like the PLO were born, with help from the Soviets, as discussed in Part One of “Israel in the Crosshairs.”
To many in the West, it seems puzzling that Palestinians don't migrate to other Arab countries. But those countries will not take them.
Egypt has as little desire to rule a discontented and dangerous Palestinian population as Israel does.
By way of explanation TheLibertyDaily posted a jaw-dropping 4-minute video entitled Here's Why No Muslim-Majority Nations Want Palestinians in Their Countries. View it here. In both Jordan and Lebanon, the Palestinians functioned as a “state within a state,” fomenting unrest and attempting to overthrow the legitimate government. Does that ring any bells?
The intransigence of the Arab leaders created the predicament of the Palestinians. But the abuse of the Palestinians by these leaders should not surprise us—it is the same principle as that of using children as “human shields” –exploitation of the powerless for political purposes.
There was a watershed moment in 2005 when Israel under Prime Minister Sharon unilaterally gave the Gaza strip to the Palestinians, even forcibly removing Jewish settlers who’d lived there for decades and didn’t want to relocate. The Israelis left them a thriving export business deriving from state-of-the-art greenhouses that supplied fruit and flowers to Europe.
Sadly, as Victor Sharpe points out: “Sharon had foolishly believed…the Arab residents would build a civilized and peaceful society, thus proving to both Israel and the world that they could live in peace with the Jewish state. It was a delusion…”
Screenshots from a short video online
As articles in Newsweek and the NYTimes and various writers have pointed out, Gaza could have become the Singapore of the Middle East.
Instead, the populace, in an uncanny echo of Kristallnacht in Nazi Germany, shattered the glass of the previously Jewish-owned greenhouses, and elected the terrorist group Hamas as their leaders.
When you sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind.
Coming soon: Israel in the Crosshairs, Part 3: The Fire of War vs. the Fog of Narrative
Stay tuned!
I certainly agree with your last sentence, it is indeed important to understand what's transpiring on the ground and to know the bigger picture. For the record, many of my friends are Jewish, including my most cherished. So, if anything, I am pro-human. Kudos to you for adding a forum for the exchange of thoughts. Good luck on your journey. keb
Excellently written, as usual. Thank you for your past work, which you have nailed on so many occasions. Here, though many of your points are true, there is an obvious slant that instead of finding answers, seems to simply search for justification to one side of the story. And so goes the world in which we live in. Until we can take off our conditioned glasses to look at every angle as one species, thousands of more children will continue to be killed, at everyone’s expense. So, let us put aside the labels (anti-Semites, anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists, racists, etc.) so at the very least we can ask questions that we truly want to find the answers to. For in truth, isn’t questioning the epitome of a free society, a debate, however begrudgingly it may be entered into, essential to move forward to new heights?
Why was (the region of) Palestine a place of peace before the infiltration and final founding of the nation state of Israel in 1948? Jerusalem has always been a melting pot. To proclaim that there really are no “Palestinian People” is irrelevant. Recent John’s Hopkins research has revealed less than 3% of all Jews living in Israel today have ancient Judaic Hebrew DNA, compared to 80% of the Palestinians. But so what? Is there any justification either way of killing thousands of innocent children, which continues at this very moment? Carrying out a ‘Mandatory Palestine’ for a future Israeli nation state is one thing, but annihilating whole villages and cities by the dozens to do so, is another. You might want to check out The General’s Son https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOaxAckFCuQ&t=1797s or Ilan Pappe’s The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine to see another angle of the story. Colonial settlers in the new world spearheaded the eventual founding of the USA merely a few hundred years ago. Should we now give back this land to the true descendants of those American tribes, what the mainstream of their day called savages? Must we continue to repeat a never-ending theme of demonization to justify what we want from other peoples and their generational lands?
Concerning Hamas, why was the most sophisticated security on the planet shut down for six hours during the ‘massacre,’ with security from that sector removed beforehand, allowing the terrorists to cut through layers of barriers? It was said if a rat crossed that line, they’d know it. Who was it that benefited from this operation? I don’t need to remind you of PNAC prior to 911, how the deep state needed a reason to get to the Middle East with their killing equipment. If you were honest with your historical research, you would see that what is transpiring now, wiping the slate clean in Gaza, of whatever you want to call these people, has been long planned by a very few, that in the end will do the same to the Jewish people. This chapter of the WEF’s Agenda 2030 is just the beginning. There is one thing about Oct. 7 that can’t be denied. The objective was to make it as horrific as possible, whether the exact reports coming only from Israeli sources were exaggerated, or not (there are conflicting whistle-blower reports of Israeli forces killing both civilians and ‘Hamas’ terrorists alike). Again, who was it that benefited? Certainly not the Palestinian people. Hamas was a creation of the US and Israel to counter Arafat’s PLO, and the people within the open-walled prison called Gaza were encouraged to support this ‘organization.’ Now they are being eradicated for doing so, the justification for their elimination being proclaimed that there is no difference between Hamas and the people who ‘voted’ to keep them in power. Shame on anyone who would claim righteous rationalization of the killing of tens of thousands (and counting) of its citizenry (focusing again on the children), whatever their DNA tells us. October the 7th was the excuse, not the reason. Open your eyes. Just who is genociding who?
Wiping out an entire populace before they can exterminate you plays right into the deceptive globalists long-turn agenda, a plan set forth long ago by not the Jewish people, but a small group using them, now referred to as Zionists (see the Sabbatian-Frankist movement). These elites in the shadows within the City of London (not London the city) would just as well prefer we all slaughter ourselves. I am also sure you are aware that they have supported both sides of the first two world wars (and perhaps most conflicts in the western world), and will certainly do so in the next and last one planned, as they have stated. Hitler’s meteoric rise and the building of his superior war-machine is a prime example (recalling PNAC and having a good reason to ‘get over there’). Joseph Farah may proclaim that the Arabs controlled 99.9% of Middle East lands, yet they still want it all. But the big-picture agenda for this small gang of archontic globalists, are the plans for a Greater Israel that will ultimately call for over 50% after the dust settles upon the rubble. Then, the real shenanigans will commence. And, again, in the end, the Jewish people will suffer along with us and they won’t even blink an eye.
We could go on and on with the debate. There is no doubt you could use your expertise to refute, cherry-pick, deny any points of interest mentioned here or elsewhere. But intelligence does not equate to wisdom. Here is the most important question, coming from someone who has no dog in the fight, other than exposing those forces that have caused us so much pain and suffering throughout our history. When will it end? When will we jump off the loop of deception and stop falling into their trap? Over and over and over it goes, the same players that were pulling the strings thousands of years ago are still pulling them now. While we are justifying and fighting and killing, they are playing us like a fiddle. This is not a war between Israel and the Palestinian people. It is a war against humanity. And here is one last, but most important point. The controllers that control the world, and as such control and are using Israel through their minions, have their own overlords. And their forte is deception. They’re way ahead of you, and us. So before we start pointing the finger, we must question, with UTMOST HONESTY, everything. From ALL angles. Most especially, we must question ourselves. Otherwise, it’s a done deal.