Who Stole the Land of Israel aka The Jewish State of Israel?
Why do the anti-Zionists feel that a thousand-year old claim by Arabs who were
never ruled by Arab Palestinians has legitimacy, while over a 1,900-year claim
by Jews to the land should be rejected as absurd? The Arabs received over 12
million sq. km. after WWI.
So let us see if we have this straight. The anti-Zionists claim that the Jews
have no right to the land of Israel because before Israel was re-created in 1948, Israel re-assumed its sovereignty on May 15, 1948, but it was reconstituted in 1920 under international
law and treaties, with the British as trustee for the Jews to promote Jewish
immigration, until the Jews comprise a majority. It had been almost 1,900 years
since the last time that the Jewish people exercised sovereignty over the Land of Israel. And the anti-Zionists claim that it is absurd to
argue that anyone still has rights to land that was last governed with
sovereignty 1,900 years ago. They forget to mention that Jews were always
residing in Israel and in varying population census.
And on what basis do they argue that the Arabs have some legitimate claim to
these same lands? On the basis of the claim that the various Arab-Muslims
rulers last exercised sovereignty as an occupier over that land 1,000 years
ago. They always considered The Land of Israel as occupied territory and abused
its land and resources, to the extent that it became desolate, since it was
only occupied territory: until the Jewish people came back to their own
historical land and revitalized the land to be green and productive.
Are you all with me? 1,900 year-old-claims by the Jews are inadmissible.
Thousand-year-old of numerous rulers, who milked the country, that the
Arab-Muslim claims trump them and are indisputable. Is it not a fantasy and
delusion? There was also a period of Time where the Christians occupied The
Land of Israel and other nations.
Now let us emphasize that even the thousand-year-old Arab claim is not the same
thing as a claim on behalf of Arab/Palestinian [sic] Arabs. After all, the last
time that Arab/Palestinians held sovereignty or control over the lands of “Palestine” aka The Land of Israel was … never. There has never
been an Arab Palestinian state in Palestine aka The Land of Israel. “Ever”.
It is true that various Arab rulers once exercised its occupation and control
over parts or all of historic Palestine – Israel and so did many other nations.
There were small Nomadic kingdoms in the south of “Palestine” aka The Land of Israel already in late Biblical
days, and they were important military and political allies of the Jews, who
exercised sovereignty for over 1,000 years back then in the Land of Israel, which extended all the way to Mesopotamia. After the rise of Islam, historic “Palestine” aka The Land of Israel was for a time indeed an occupied
part of a larger numerous ruling Arab-Muslim kingdoms or caliphate. But that
ended in 1071 CE, when Palestine aka The Land of Israel came under the rule of the
Seljuk Turks and shortly afterwards by the Crusaders for about 200 years.
That was the last time Palestine aka The Land of Israel had an Arab-Muslim occupier
and ruler. After that, it was always occupied and ruled by a long series of
Ottomans, Mamluks, other Turks, Crusaders, British, and — briefly — French. And
in any case, why does the fact that Palestine aka The Land of Israel once was
occupied by a larger Arab-Muslim empire make it any more “Arab” than the fact
that it also was once part of larger Roman, Greek, Persian, Turkish, or British
empires? Now it is true that historic Palestine aka The Land of Israel probably once had a population
majority who were Arab Muslims and Christians etc., but today it has a
population majority who are Jews.
So if population majorities are what determine legitimacy of sovereignty, Israel is at least as legitimate as any other country.
So why exactly do the anti-Zionists claim that a thousand-year old claim by
various Arab-Muslims who were never ruled or occupied by Arab-Palestinians has
any legitimacy, while a 1,900-year legitimate claim by Jews to its own historical
ancestral land should be rejected as absurd, even though the Supreme Allied
Powers after WWI had signed a treaty that guaranteed Palestine as the land for
the Jewish National Home (The British in violation of international law and
treaties reallocated over 77% of Jewish land east of the Jordan River to the
new Arab state of Transjordan, which received its independence in 1946). These
terms were confirmed by the 1920 treaty of Sevres and Lausanne, including the 1919 Faisal Weitzman Agreement. (The Supreme
Allied Powers also allocated over 6 million square miles to the Arabs). These
treaties were incorporated by the 52 members of the League of Nations, which set-up the Mandate for Palestine to reconstitute the Jewish sovereignty in the land of Israel. Once and immediately after the British relinquished
its responsibility, abandoned its obligation and duty, to implement the terms
of the Mandate for Palestine to reconstitute the Jewish state. The United Nations
recognized that the terms of the treaty of Jewish majority has been reached and
granted Israel sovereignty in 1947?
The anti-Zionists say it is because the thousand-year-old Arab deceptive claim
is more recent than the older legitimate Jewish claim. But if national claims
to lands become more legitimate when they are more recent, then surely the most
legitimate of all is that of the remaining indigenous Jews of Israel, who have
absolute right to the lands of Israel, also because it is the most recent!
The other claim by the anti-Zionists is that Jews have no rights to the lands
of Israel (named Palestine by the Romans) because they moved there from some
other places. Now never mind that there was actually always a Jewish habitation
living in the lands of Israel even when it was under the sovereignty of Romans,
Greeks, Byzantines, Arabs, Crusaders, Mamluks, Turks, French or British.
Does the fact that Jews moved to the land of Israel from other places disqualify them from exercising
sovereignty there? The claim would be absurd enough even if we were to ignore
that fact; that most “Arab Palestinians” also moved illegally to Palestine from neighboring countries, starting in the late
nineteenth century. But more generally, does the fact that peoples that move
from one locality to another deprive it of its claims to its legitimate
sovereignty in its new abode? Does this fact necessitate the conclusion that
they need to pack up and leave, as the anti-Zionists insist?
If it does, then it goes without saying that the Americans and Canadians must
lead the way and show the Israelis the light, by returning all lands that they
seized from the Indians and the Mexicans to their original owners and going
back to whence they came. For that matter, the Mexicans of Spanish ancestry
also need to leave. The Anglo-Saxons, meaning the English, will be invited to
turn the British Isles over to their rightful original Celtic and Druid
owners, while they return to their own ancestral Saxon homeland in northern Germany and Denmark. The Danes of course will be asked to move aside, in
fact to move back to their Norwegian and Swedish homelands, to make room for
the returning Anglo-Saxons.
But that is just a beginning. The Spanish will be called upon to leave the Iberian Peninsula that they wrongfully occupy, and return it to the
Celt Iberians. (The Muslims occupied Spain for about 700 years, through the late 1400’s, how
come they are not demanding Spain as their land). Similarly the Portuguese occupiers
will leave their lands and return them to the Lusitanian’s. The Magyars will go
back where they came from and leave Hungary to its true owners. The Australians and New
Zealanders obviously will have to end their occupations of lands that do not
belong to them. The Thais will leave Thailand. The Bulgarians will return to their Volga
homeland and abandon occupied Bulgaria. Anyone speaking Spanish will be expected to end his
or her forced occupation of Latin
America. It goes without
saying that the French will lose almost all their lands to their rightful
owners. The Turks will go back to Mongolia and leave Anatolia altogether,
returning it to the Greeks. The Germans will go back to Got land. The Italians
will return the boot to the Etruscans and Greeks.
Ah, but that leaves the Arabs. First, all of northern Africa,
from Mauritania to Egypt and Sudan, will have to be immediately abandoned by the illegal
Arab occupiers and squatters, and returned to their lawful original Berber,
Punic, Greek, and Vandal owners. Occupied Syria and Lebanon must be released at once from the cruel occupation of
the Arab imperialist aggressors. Iraq must be returned to the Assyrians and Chaldeans. Southern Arabia must be returned to the Abyssinians. The Arabs may
retain control of the central portion of the Arabian Peninsula as their homeland. But not the oil fields.
Oh, and the Arab-Palestinians infiltrators, usurpers and squatters will of
course have to return the lands they are illegally and wrongfully occupying,
turning them over to their legal and rightful owners, which would of course be
the Jews, who are the only remaining indigenous people!
YJ Draiman
We shall consider: ”Anyone in Israel considering the surrender of Jewish territory is treason and must be prosecuted”
ReplyDeleteClipping from Saint Petersburg Times (approximately 1946)
Washington - (UP) - Britain's treaty grafting independence to Trans-Jordan violates agreements with the United States, the United Nations and the Old League, as well as the rights of the people of Palestine, Senator Francis J. Myers, Pennsylvania democrat, charged yesterday.
Echoing the words of Senator Claude Pepper, Democrat, Florida, who flayed U.S. foreign policy, Thursday, Myers asserted that Trans-Jordan is not ready for the statehood and "illegally granted". And in offering that goal of all dependencies, he added Britain has acted "in contempt of the senate of the United States."
* * *
"WHY THIS HASTE and Stealth?" he asked in a floor speech. "The British government which has fought all attempts at freedom, all movements for independence in the Middle East, is now discovered in the gracious role of liberator.
"Are there perhaps some hidden resources, mineral wealth or oil which are involved?"
He demanded that the state department explain its failure to protest the treaty violation, and urged that the senate demand all the facts.
Pepper charged that the United States had become a guarantor of British Imperialism, and that the British-Trans-Jordan agreement was but a "subterfuge" so long as his majesty's troops are allowed to remain in that country. He also asserted that the United States and Britain were ganging up on Russia, and added:
"WHAT I DECRY is the international hypocrisy, sham and pretense. If the British people want the Russians to get their troops out of Iraq, let them get their troops out of Trans-Jordan. Let them get their troops out of Lebanon and Syria, and let them get their troops out of Palestine."
Myers picked up that tune, changing only the words. In angry mood, the dark-haired Pennsylvanian told his colleagues that:
1. The territory of Trans-Jordan is contained in the original mandate for Palestine, and under its terms, the mandate could not be unilaterally altered.
2. Under the Anglo-American Convention of 1924, Britain could not change the mandate's terms without the consent of the United States.
3. This violation of the treaty with the United States also "strikes at the charter of the United Nations adopted at San Francisco" which "specifically states that no change can be made in the status of mandated territories without the approval of the Jewish people in Palestine and UNO's general assembly."
Myers asserted that there was no more justification for separating Trans-Jordan from Palestine then there was for "the separation of the United States into two nations: Trans-Mississippi and Cis-Mississippi."
"Aaron Burr tried to do that to our nation" he said. "He was tried for treason".
We shall consider: ”Anyone in Israel considering the surrender of Jewish territory is treason and must be prosecuted”
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We shall consider: ”Anyone in Israel considering the surrender of Jewish territory is treason and must be prosecuted”
ReplyDeleteClipping from Saint Petersburg Times (approximately 1946)
Washington - (UP) - Britain's treaty grafting independence to Trans-Jordan violates agreements with the United States, the United Nations and the Old League, as well as the rights of the people of Palestine, Senator Francis J. Myers, Pennsylvania democrat, charged yesterday.
Echoing the words of Senator Claude Pepper, Democrat, Florida, who flayed U.S. foreign policy, Thursday, Myers asserted that Trans-Jordan is not ready for the statehood and "illegally granted". And in offering that goal of all dependencies, he added Britain has acted "in contempt of the senate of the United States."
* * *
"WHY THIS HASTE and Stealth?" he asked in a floor speech. "The British government which has fought all attempts at freedom, all movements for independence in the Middle East, is now discovered in the gracious role of liberator.
"Are there perhaps some hidden resources, mineral wealth or oil which are involved?"
He demanded that the state department explain its failure to protest the treaty violation, and urged that the senate demand all the facts.
Pepper charged that the United States had become a guarantor of British Imperialism, and that the British-Trans-Jordan agreement was but a "subterfuge" so long as his majesty's troops are allowed to remain in that country. He also asserted that the United States and Britain were ganging up on Russia, and added:
"WHAT I DECRY is the international hypocrisy, sham and pretense. If the British people want the Russians to get their troops out of Iraq, let them get their troops out of Trans-Jordan. Let them get their troops out of Lebanon and Syria, and let them get their troops out of Palestine."
Myers picked up that tune, changing only the words. In angry mood, the dark-haired Pennsylvanian told his colleagues that:
1. The territory of Trans-Jordan is contained in the original mandate for Palestine, and under its terms, the mandate could not be unilaterally altered.
2. Under the Anglo-American Convention of 1924, Britain could not change the mandate's terms without the consent of the United States.
3. This violation of the treaty with the United States also "strikes at the charter of the United Nations adopted at San Francisco" which "specifically states that no change can be made in the status of mandated territories without the approval of the Jewish people in Palestine and UNO's general assembly."
Myers asserted that there was no more justification for separating Trans-Jordan from Palestine then there was for "the separation of the United States into two nations: Trans-Mississippi and Cis-Mississippi."
"Aaron Burr tried to do that to our nation" he said. "He was tried for treason".
We shall consider: ”Anyone in Israel considering the surrender of Jewish territory is treason and must be prosecuted”
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