Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Foolishness

 From The American Thinker:

The most brilliant thing that Trump did when it came to bringing peace to the Middle East was to marginalize the Palestinians. By making them irrelevant, he allowed other countries – none of which like the Palestinians – to come directly to the table with Israel. Biden, of course, is reversing that.

The Palestinians are not a real people, pardon me for saying so. By that, I don’t mean that they’re imaginary; they exist, but the identity they claim does not.

Jews have lived in the land of Israel for at least 3,800 years. They are the indigenous people. Those people who call themselves Palestinians mostly arrived in the 19th century. They were refugees from various internecine battles between Muslims in different Arab countries. They didn’t own the land but, instead, were squatters or laborers on land owned by wealthy Ottoman Turks.

When these drifters settled in the land, it was called Syria-Palestine. The name “Palestine” was the name the Romans applied to the land when they conquered it in 70 A.D. It was a deliberate insult, meant to sever the Jews’ ancient ties to their land. The Syria part was because the Muslims had conquered the land and it eventually ended up under Ottoman Turk control as a swampy, disease-ridden region adjacent to Syria.

Fast forward to WWI. The Ottoman Turks sided with Germany. When Germany lost the War, Britain gained control over the Palestine part of Syria-Palestine. By this time, Theodore Herzl’s dream of returning to all the diaspora Jews to their ancient land to avoid Europe’s deadly anti-Semitism had taken hold. (Read more.)

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