He serves as a bellwether. I'm trying to determine whether your attitude towards the Netanyahu regime reflects a reactionary political orientation or an ignorance when it comes to Israel's political landscape and history.
My attitude concerning Netanyahu is irrelevant because whether it’s him or someone else doing what he’s doing to stand for and protect Israel at this point, I would feel the same. I don’t claim to know all the details of Israel’s politics or history, but am aware of some important historical realities.
“Who lived in the newly designated Palestine and were thus known as "Palestinians"? Jews, of course. Chase them out and they return to the land God gave to their forebears. At that time, Arabs hadn't even dreamed that "Palestine" was their land. That ambition would not take hold for another five hundred years until the advent of
Islam—and even then Arabs would not call themselves Palestinians.
In World War II, Britain had a volunteer brigade known as "The Palestinian Brigade." It was made up entirely of Jews. The Arabs were fighting on Hitler's side. (Hitler had promised, in addition to the destruction of
Israel, freedom and self-rule to all the Arab states in return for their assistance. One entire SS division was made up of Bosnian Muslims.)
There was the Palestinan Symphony Orchestra, a Jewish orchestra, and the "Palestinian Post," a Jewish newspaper. As late as the 1950s, Arabs refused to be called Palestinians and declared that if there were such people, they were Jews!
To the British Peel Commission in 1937, a local Arab leader testified, "There is no such country as Palestine. 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented...." Professor Philip Hitti, Arab historian, testified to an Anglo-American Committee of inquiry in 1946, "There is no such thing as Palestine in history—absolutely not!" (cited in Eliyahu Tal, "Whose Jerusalem?" 1994, p.93). To the UN Security Council on May 31, 1956, Ahmed Shukairy declared, "It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria." Eight years later, in 1964, Shukairy became the founding chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization and coined the infamous slogan, "[W]e'll drive the Jews into the sea." And he wasn't even a "Palestinian"! Like Arafat, he was born in Cairo. The PLO was not founded by Palestinians but has been used to exploit these abused people in
Islam's war against
Israel.”
Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt Who lived in the newly designated Palestine and were thus known as "Palestinians"? Jews, of course. Chase
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And then Hamas…
Now that Hamas has again – clearly – reminded the world that it has not changed and continues to seek the destruction of Israel, the question is: Why are some world leaders, governments and organizations continuing to embrace the leaders of the movement?
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