Here's a summary of this 132-page book, which I guarantee you will read in one sitting:
This book is the fruit of many years of research, during which thousands
of sources have been meticulously reviewed in libraries and archives
worldwide. It is no doubt the most comprehensive and extensive review of
some 3,000 years of Palestinian history, with emphasis on the
Palestinian people’s unique contribution to the world and to humanity.
So what's so special about this book? JPost's Joy Bernard explains:
The catch? This lauded historical account that is also available in
Arabic and in Hebrew and was penned by the Israeli writer offers no real
insight, let alone content. Yes, that's right- "History of the
Palestinian People" is a book whose every single page (and there are 120
of them) is a blank.
Unfortunately, if you go to Amazon today and search "History of the Palestinian People + Voll" or "History of the Palestinian People + Assaf Voll" you find something different (and if you search "History of the Palestinian People + Assaf," you find nothing). But at least it's (seemingly) on the right side. This is from the author's summary.
The secret is that there will never be peace between the Palestinians
and the State of Israel because the Palestinians were formed for a very
specific purpose which is to lead to the destruction of the State of
Israel. This is their sole objective…..at least that of the leaders.
Let's hope Amazon doesn't discover this one.
By the way, if you click on the link in my original post, you get a message from Amazon that they 'can't find that page.' A likely story.....
Amazon's new best seller: "A History of the Palestinian People from Ancient Times to the Modern Era"
It's only been out ten days, but this book has become the number 1 best seller on Amazon in its Israel and Palestine History category. Its price has dropped to $6.21 from $7.79 yesterday when I first saw it. It's already garnered 245 reviews. Here's a summary of this 132-page book, which I guarantee you will read in one sitting:
This book is the fruit of many years of research, during which thousands of sources have been meticulously reviewed in libraries and archives worldwide. It is no doubt the most comprehensive and extensive review of some 3,000 years of Palestinian history, with emphasis on the Palestinian people’s unique contribution to the world and to humanity.
So what's so special about this book? JPost's Joy Bernard explains:
The catch? This lauded historical account that is also available in Arabic and in Hebrew and was penned by the Israeli writer offers no real insight, let alone content. Yes, that's right- "History of the Palestinian People" is a book whose every single page (and there are 120 of them) is a blank.
In other words, we finally have a book that tells the truth about the 'history' of the 'Palestinian people.' It's about time.
With all the talk about #FakeNews recently, there's one piece of #FakeNews that's been accepted as truth for the last 24 years, because the Israeli government was foolish enough to accept it. I saw this on Facebook:
Judith Bergman on "fake news"...
"In all the talk about 'fake news'
Israel is missing an opportunity by not calling out the fakest of the
fake news, namely the professed existence of a Palestinian Arab people.
Palestinian Arab officials themselves have admitted that the professed
Palestinian identity is fake, an invention for the political and
tactical purpose of defeating Israel.
In a 1977 interview with Dutch newspaper Trouw, PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein said:
“The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian
state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of
Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference
between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for
political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a
Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit
the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism".
Hamas Minister of the Interior and of National Security Fathi Hammad
made it clear that nothing has changed since 1977. This is what Hammad
said when he was interviewed on Al-Hekma TV in March 2012: “Brothers,
half of the Palestinians are Egyptians and the other half are Saudis.
Who are the Palestinians? ... We are Egyptians…”
Why is the world -
and parts of the Israeli establishment - obsessed with establishing a
Palestinian Arab state, funnelling billions of taxpayer dollars into
that enterprise, if the Palestinian Arabs themselves readily admit that
their professed identity is fake? To begin with, the 'Palestine
industry' has become a flourishing business that would put many people
out of business if peace were to actually break out."
The reason the Israeli establishment accepted the existence of a 'Palestinian people' is that in 1993, Israel's Left saw the Messiah of 'Peace' and his name was 'Palestinian.' I've been railing about this stuff for years.
But most of the Israeli establishment - including our Prime Minister - won't admit this. If they admitted it, they'd also have to admit that there's no 'two state solution' and admitting that would be admitting that everything they've done for the past 24 years has been misguided and wrong. So the #FakeNews continues to be treated as real.
'Palestinians' to sue God over covenant with Abraham
Last week, I reported on the 'Palestinian Authority's plans to sue the United Kingdom for issuing the Balfour Declaration in 1917.
And as many of you know, the Bible says that God promised the land of Israel to the Jewish people.
So what's a 'Palestinian' to do? It's easy. They're going to sue God over His Making that covenant with Abraham.
“The God of Abraham had no right to promise this land to the Jews. Being
all-knowing, He had to have foreseen that some 4,000 years later, we
would suddenly decide that we have a national identity tied to this
land”, said a spokesperson for the Palestinian Authority. The
Palestinians claim that God should have known that they would seek to
retroactively deny the rich and well-documented history of Jews in the
land of Israel and therefore should not have promised it to Abraham and
his descendants. “Although we were living in Arabia for thousands of
years after the covenant, God really should have taken us into
consideration when making such promises” said the P.A. spokesperson. We
reached out to God for comment via a note in the Wailing Wall. The
Almighty issued a statement through his spokesperson, the angel Gabriel,
“Are you serious with this sh*t??? I have much more important things
to worry about. There’s a war in Syria killing hundreds of thousands of
people in my name, the ice caps are melting, and I’m trying to figure
out how to stop the bees from dying off so you guys don’t starve to
death. I don’t have time for this nonsense.”
The Palestinians assert that time is a construct invented by God, and he
is simply avoiding having to address the issue. An archangel, speaking
on condition of anonymity, said that God is indeed worried about the
lawsuit since there are no good lawyers in heaven. “All of the most
cutthroat and lawyers are either in the U.S. Government or in Hell, so
God is really at a loss here. He won’t say it publicly, but he’s
scared.”
A museum without exhibits for a people without a history
How appropriate. The New York Times reports that the $24 million 'Palestinian Museum' (ostensibly 'privately funded') will open this week in Bir Zeit near Ramallah, but due to infighting it won't have any exhibits.
The long-planned — and much-promoted — inaugural exhibit, “Never Part,” highlighting artifacts of Palestinian refugees, has been suspended after a disagreement between the museum’s board and its director, which led to the director’s ouster. President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority and other dignitaries are expected to attend the opening ceremony, but a spokeswoman acknowledged on Sunday that “there will not be any artwork exhibited in the museum at all.”
Omar al-Qattan, the museum’s chairman, said Palestinians were “so in need of positive energy” that it was worthwhile to open even an empty building. “Symbolically it’s critical,” he said, conceding that the next phase, including the exhibits, “is the more exciting one.”
...
“Never Part,” developed over several years by the ousted director, Jack Persekian, was to feature artistic interpretations of things like keys and photographs that Palestinians around the world have kept from the homes they fled or were forced from in what is now Israel.
Mr. Persekian, who runs an art gallery called the Al Mamal Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jerusalem, said he had agreed to leave after the museum’s senior management unceremoniously told him that it no longer favored the project, but he said he did not know why.
“I can’t fathom what happened,” he said, offering a succinct description of the result of his work for the museum: “Waste.”
Mr. Qattan, the museum chairman, said that his team had decided that Mr. Persekian had not sufficiently built expertise among staff members during his tenure of three and a half years, and that outside artists had criticized his conception of the exhibition.
“We didn’t feel that what was delivered was up to scratch,” Mr. Qattan said.
But wait - it gets better. It seems that Mr. Persekian's successor has a slightly embellished resume.
The museum announced in a news release this month that it had named a new director, Mahmoud Hawari, who it called “the lead curator at the British Museum”and a specialist in early Islamic art, architecture and archaeology, among other topics.
A spokeswoman for the British Museum would not confirm that Mr. Hawari held the position of lead curator there, saying only that “he was a visiting academic at the British Museum.” A spokeswoman for Taawon said on Monday morning that the information in the release was based on a curriculum vitae that Mr. Hawari had provided.
In the news release by the Palestinian museum, Mr. Hawari said it would be an institution that “links Palestinians together, at home and in exile, wherever they may live.”
But here's a hint of why Mr. Persekian was fired and his exhibit canceled: It seems that the museum's owners were afraid that someone might say something against the 'Palestinian Authority.'
For “Never Part,” Mr. Persekian said he had collected images of countless artifacts from Palestinians around the world, conducted Skype interviews to document the stories behind those artifacts and planned to include physical objects as well. The objects would have been collected locally — across the West Bank for exhibitions in the museum here in Birzeit, a university town next to Ramallah, and in cities around the world for versions presented there.
Mr. Persekian said he had intended to make all this material available to artists whose work involves archival material and research, and the artists could have interpreted the objects as they saw fit. For those in charge of the museum’s finances, he said, that may have caused unease.
“Maybe they didn’t want to take a risk with something that is so unpredictable and so uncontrollable,” he said.
Yeah, imagine if some of those 'Palestinians' started talking about the corruption of the 'Palestinian Authority' or saying that they have no interest in 'returning' to 'Palestine.'
Must see video: UN Ambassador Ron Prosor rips the Europeans some new body parts
This is guaranteed to be the best three minutes you spend today.
Here's Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, telling the Europeans to stuff it where the sun don't shine. This is part of the the UN International day of solidarity with the 'Palestinian People' debate.
Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip: Leah P).
And they consider themselves 'friends.' With 'friends' like this....
In an interview with The Washington Post, Saban described the
president’s relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
as “like oil and water.” That has fed a perception, he said, that Obama
has not been a friend to Israel, although Saban said he thinks that, in
reality, “there’s never been this level of cooperation with any previous
president.”
Still, Saban said that he
thinks Clinton would repair the relationship and that he has told her he
would spend “whatever it takes” to propel her into the White House.
That includes giving millions of dollars to Priorities USA, a super PAC
that helped Obama in 2012 and is revving up to aid Clinton in 2016.
“I
have told her and everybody who’s asked me, ‘Whatever it takes, we’re
going to be there,’ ” Saban said. “I think she would be a fantastic
president for the United States, an incredible world leader and one
under whom I believe — deeply — the relationship with the U.S. and
Israel will be significantly reinforced.”
Asked
if he would press his friend Adelson to give to the pro-Clinton super
PAC, Saban said, “I’ve got chutzpah, but I’m not suicidal.”
In
their public remarks, Saban and Adelson found common ground in their
disdain for Iran, and their fear for the danger they say that regime
poses for Israel. They expressed concern about U.S. negotiations over
Iran’s nuclear program.
Adelson said that Iranian fundamentalists are
instructed by their religion to “wipe out all infidels” and that “wiping
out the Jews would be a down payment on that.”
Referring to U.S. engagement with Iran, he said: “I would not just talk. I would take action.”
Saban
said that fundamentalist Iranians represent a real threat. If necessary
to defend Israel, and as a last resort, he added, “I would bomb the
living daylights out of the sons of bitches.”
Saban endorsed a
bill from Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), who addressed the group on
Saturday night, that would subject any Iranian nuclear deal to
congressional approval. Saban said a system of checks and balances with
the Obama administration on foreign policy is critical.
...
In their hour-long discussion, Saban and Adelson had few
disagreements, but one concerned how Israel engages with Palestinians.
Saban said Israel has no choice but to negotiate with the Palestinians,
whose numbers in the region roughly equal those of Israeli Jews.
“What
is Israel to do with these 6 million people?” Saban asked. “It is not
about granting the Palestinian state. It’s about securing the future of a
democratic Israel.”
But Adelson rejected the feasibility of a two-state solution.
“Newt
Gingrich was right: The Palestinians are an invented people,” Adelson
said, referring to a controversial statement made by the former
Republican House speaker whose failed 2012 presidential campaign Adelson
heavily funded.
Evenhaim asked the men
whether they think the news media are biased against Israel. Saban said
they are but cited two exceptions: Fox News Channel and the Wall Street
Journal. He joked to Adelson that they should have bought The [Washington] Post
together.
The phrase 'peaceful Palestinian' is almost an oxymoron
Israeli diplomat Yehuda Yaakov - our Consul General to New England no less - describes the hopelessly naive view of the 'Palestinians' that has led to the disaster known as the 'Oslo process.'
I have no doubt that Palestinians, like Israelis, seek normalcy. Like
us, they want a better future for themselves and their children. If
they could speak freely I am sure they would say that they want the
concrete and metal that went into the tunnels to go into schools and
clinics instead.
Any observer can see this plainly in Israel’s
relationship with the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank — a
relationship which, while far from perfect, certainly reflects an
aspiration toward normalcy at its most basic level: toward improvement,
not destruction.
How can I be so sure? Well, I saw this thirst for normalcy with my own eyes just this summer in New England, while visiting the "Seeds for Peace" summer camp held annually in Maine.
There my wife, Ofra, and I met not only Israeli campers of all
religions, we also chatted with Palestinians. My Arabic-speaking wife
conversed with them in their mother tongue.
We didn't talk politics, of course, just about how wonderful it was
to enjoy life itself. We spoke civilly, shook hands, smiled and even
laughed with each other. Indeed, in this serene New England atmosphere
we saw so clearly how good fences make good neighbors.
Maybe it's something about the air in Maine. Jonathan Tobin, using a New York Times article by architecture critic Michael Kimmelman in which Kimmelman discusses the trials and tribulations of building a town square after 65 years in the Al-Fawwar 'Palestinian refugee camp' south of Hebron, sees things in a far different light.
While the Arab states colluded with Palestinian leaders to keep the
refugees homeless in order that they may be preserved as props in an
endless war against Israel, the residents of the camps have participated
in this dispiriting and pointless charade. They have often resisted any
improvements in their lot because to accept anything more than charity
and subsistence—provided by UNRWA, the United Nations agency dedicated
to keeping Palestinian refugees homeless—was a tacit acceptance that
they weren’t going back to what is now Israel.
As Kimmelman tries to argue, the fact that the residents of the camps
have accepted the building of squares or ball fields can be interpreted
as a sign that their ideological quest is being set aside in order to
deal with their current needs. But even in this slightly hopeful
context, it is hard to ignore the intransigent nature of the culture of
these camps that provides an obstacle to peace that seems impossible to
overcome.
As a Palestinian architect told Kimmelman, the right of return is “an
architectural question in one respect,” as it is a question of the
redistribution of land and buildings. The quest to give these people
better lives and a sense of dignity that has been denied them is one
that deserves sympathy and support. But, unfortunately, even in the
context of a discussion about improving the camps and recognizing that
they are more than mere way stations on a path to Israel’s destruction,
the rhetoric of even the most moderate voices in this piece took it as a
given that “return” to Israel, i.e. the end of the Jewish state, was a
given. Though an almost equal number of Jews were forced to flee from
their homes in the Arab and Muslim world at the same time and made new
lives in Israel and the West, the Palestinian Arabs seem to prefer
ongoing misery to acceptance of the fact that they must move on.
What we must recognize here is that the pathology of hate is not
merely about Palestinian violence but also the ingrained beliefs passed
on from generation to generation that alone of all historical events of
the last century, the creation of Israel must be reversed. Unlike the
countless millions of other refugees from wars of aggression waged in
their name, the descendants of the Palestinians who hoped to see the
Jews prevented from having their state think they can continue to
persist in this delusion and that world should support them in holding
on to it.
Anyone who questions the power of this delusion should have taken
note of the fact that Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas specifically rejected an Egyptian offer
to give hundreds of square miles in the Sinai adjacent to Gaza for the
purpose of resettling the refugees. Abbas, the man acclaimed as a peace
partner for Israel by the world, rejected the offer out of hand. The
reason was that he knows the refugees and their supporters won’t listen
to reason and start seeking solutions to their plight that don’t involve
the eradication of Zionism. If it took decades for Palestinians to
accept the need to build a square in their refugee camp, it’s easy to
understand why they won’t give up their ideas about going “home” or
thinking that they should be given, as some insist, a “choice” about
dispossessing the Jews of Israel.
The fact that the Times and most of the rest of the
international media ignored the story about Abbas’s rejection of Egypt’s
offer says a lot about the way the world has accepted Palestinian
assumptions. But while the media obsesses about Israelis building in
lands that were theirs before 1948 and would remain in the Jewish state
even in the event of a peace agreement, they treat the absurd
Palestinian fantasies as reasonable. Far from merely an architectural
question, the camps and what they represent are a permanent obstacle
that must be removed if the Middle East is ever to know peace.
And if that's how the 'Palestinians' in Al Fawwar - who would likely be residents of a 'Palestinian state' were one ever established - feel, imagine the chances that the stateless 'Palestinians' in 'refugee camps' in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Iraq will ever give up their 'right of return,' or that the governments of those countries might ever look them straight in the eye and tell them that 65 years of statelessness was all for nothing.
The longer this goes on, the less likely it is that there will ever be a 'peaceful solution.' And there is no end in sight. Yehuda Yaakov is a starry-eyed, naive fool.
Someone on the Left who seems to get it - Paul Estrin, the Chairman of Canada's Green party - says that Gaza makes him sad. Here's why.
It has nearly been ten years. Since August 2005, Gazans have been in
control of their own destiny. Some might say otherwise, yet Gazans have
their own government and they are their own people: If their neighbours,
Egypt and Israel, close their borders to Gaza, one must look to a Gaza
run by a terrorist organization cum government that teaches and
propagates hate, death and destruction to understand why.
Since then, stories of resources being used, such as concrete
supposed to be used for infrastructure for civil use instead used for
purposes of terrors, or stories of repression of the people there by its
own government, or stories of how under Hamas rule people no income or
ways to support themselves … I’m reminded of Bill Clinton’s remark “It’s
the economy, stupid” … but instead of showing openness to the world, or
managing, or caring ... Gaza has instead shown that it is not
interested in peace, in building a stable economy, in a secure future.
The Gazan government has had ample opportunity over these past years,
nearly a decade, to alter its ways, change its mantra of death to the
Jews, and become respectable caretakers of the people in their charge.
They have not.
Surely they could have done more. Should have done more.
We can forgive them for at first being overjoyed with the departure
of the Israeli forces, and them as a terrorist organization unable to
initially take up the challenge of good governance.
We can forgive them for not immediately changing their charter. In
Canada and elsewhere, national charters protect the people. In Gaza, the
first article calls for the death of Israel and the Jew. (Let me quote
just a bit: “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam
will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." I would
like to believe all of us in our organization can see how atrocious such
a statement is, and that we would believe in things like the right of
people to not be obliterated …)
They said, they being the Hamas government newly in power, they
needed time. They have had nearly a decade. What is the holdup … oh,
wait, the hate and desire to obliterate.
So, let us fast forward past a decade’s worth of battles, wars, incursions, etc.
How much aide has Israel given Gaza? How much has the world given Gaza?
Giving aid is worthwhile, a noble cause. But, has it gone to the people that need it? Ten years …
So, now, this month, what do we see:
Israel is more threatened than even because its neighbour, instead of
caring about the welfare and well-being of its citizens, cares about
the cause of killing, of carrying the banner of martyrdom, and of
watching its fellow people die.
And yet, these are the same people who are embraced and loved by the
international community, with marches on Parliament Hill in Canada’s
capital, and in cities throughout the world, holding banners and
chanting about the destruction of the state of Israel and of death to
the Jews.
Meanwhile, Gaza uses UN locations to launch or house weapons … yet
the international community cries out, a day after the UN itself
admitted this and said that this practise puts at risk those in these
facilities given that these places then are not safe havens but rather
places of war to be targeted ..
Meanwhile, Gaza is giving children grenades … and asking their citizens to be sheep to the slaughter.
Gazan officials tell their people to be killed while they hide in bomb shelters.
Cowards? No, this is worse than cowardice. It is vile and ugly and they should be put to shame.
Read the whole thing. No, it's never been about a 'Palestinian state.' It's always been about destroying Israel. It was started by the Arab countries immediately after Israel's War of Independence. Many of the Arab countries have given up on destroying Israel, even if they won't say so. But they're still not willing to face the consequences of their actions. They're not willing to help resolve the monster they created. And the monster still wants to destroy us all.
Arab commentator: 'Arab leaders praying Israel gets rid of 'Palestinians' once and for all'
Are the Arab leaders tiring of their own false creation? That's what Arab news commentator Abd al-Bari Atwan says in this interview on Lebanese television.
Alan Johnson talks about how the world treats the 'Palestinians' like infants, giving them a free pass on all their bad behavior.
In part, because an anti-Zionist mindset that has taken root in the
West, and at its heart is unexamined assumption – that Israelis and
Palestinians are different kinds of people. Israelis have
agency, responsibility and choice, Palestinians do not. In short, the
world treats the Palestinians as children – ‘the pathology of paternalism’ it has been called.
The unarticulated assumption of anti-Zionism is that Palestinians are
a driven people, dominated by circumstances and moved by emotions;
qualities associated with the world of nature. Israelis are the opposite; masters of all circumstances, rational and calculating; qualities associated with the world of culture.
This dichotomous thinking has three bad consequences.
First, by granting only one side to the conflict agency and
responsibility, the dichotomy distorts key events of the conflict (e.g.
the war of 1948, the collapse of the Camp David peace talks in 2000,
Gaza after the 2005 disengagement). The Palestinians are cast as passive
victims; a compelled people (Haaretz writer Yitkhak Laor claims the second intifada was “instigated” by … Israeli policy); a duped people (activist Tikva Honig-Parnass writes of “Barak’s pre-planned collapse of the Camp David talks in October 2000”); and a people beyond the reach of judgement.Academic Jacqueline Rose views
Palestinian suicide bombers as “people driven to extremes” and argues
that Israel has “the responsibility for [the] dilemma” of the suicide
bomber.
Second, the dichotomous understanding of Palestinians and Israelis
distorts our understanding of Israel’s security. The threats Israel
faces are discounted and the security measures taken by Israel reframed as motiveless and cruel acts. For example, the writer Shlomo Sand argues
that Israel falsely “portray[s] itself as a persecuted innocent” and he
claims that this portrayal, not real threats, has given Israeli society
“a well of deep-seated collective anxieties.” Ilan Pappe, an Israeli
academic now teaching in the UK, claims
that “Zionists” are “[c]ompelling a nation to be constantly at arms” by
stimulating “continual angst” through the abuse of Holocaust memory. He
dismisses “useful fabrications about Israelis suffering under intense
rocketing” as a “fantasy of apologists.” For the anti-Zionists, then,
Israel’s concern with security is either a pathology (an unconscious
psychological condition Israelis cannot break out of) or – this a
contradiction, note – a case of manipulation (a conscious political
ploy).
The third consequence of this dichotomous thinking about the nature
of the two peoples is the infantalisation of the Palestinians: they
remain perpetually below the age of responsibility; the source of their
behaviour always external to themselves, always located in Israel’s actions.
What Johnson seems to miss is that the anti-Zionists that he cites are not 'Palestinians' but Israeli Jews, most of whom spent many years sucking at the teat of the State of Israel's publicly funded university system. You can add to the list of things that the 'Palestinians' are incapable of doing 'thinking for themselves.' They are even dependent on Israel for the intellectual backup for their Jew hatred.
Johnson, however, comes up with this sentence, which seems totally out of place with the rest of his column.
Of course, Israel has to compromise and divide the land, making possible a Palestinian state.
No, we don't. In fact, we already gave up 78% for a 'Palestinian state' known as the 'kingdom of Jordan.' If even Johnson, who actually gets the fact that the 'Palestinians' are unwilling and incapable of taking responsibility for themselves, still comes up with a line about Israel having to make possible a 'Palestinian' state, it's difficult to find anyone who is capable of drawing the proper conclusions about our conflict.
The 'Palestinians' continue to celebrate the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers as if they won the World Series. Here are a couple of pictures posted on Facebook by David HaIvri.
Here's hoping that at least Israelis are now convinced that peace is not possible with these savages. What a sick people.
For the first time a 'Palestinian Nakba' event is disrupted (at St Johns Wood church)
Here's the video maker's description:
I went along to this nakba event with two signs. 'Palestinian christians
are persecuted by palestinian muslims how can this church support
this?' The other saying 'If you dont believe me ask Christy Anastas' (A
palestinian christian who is pro Israel and exposes the PA and Hamas.
Those two girls confronting me. Imagine how they would be treated
dressed like that under hamas control? Or being harassed by men who go
unpunished in the PA?! Yet they want to blame Israel, where Palestinians
in Jerusalem have applied for Israeli citizenship I wonder why?!
Kedar: It's time to end the fantasy of a 'Palestinian people'
Professor Mordechai Kedar says it's time to end the fantasy of a 'Palestinian people.' But first, let's look at this video in which Kedar talks about the possibility of 'peace' between Israel and the Arabs.
Despite the benefits of this ambiguous situation, Israel should adopt
a clearer policy: Since the PLO has not abandoned its plan to destroy
Israel, it must end the dream of establishing a state under the rule of
this organization. The Hamas movement began the process in Gaza, and
Israel must continue it in Judea and Samaria in order to establish seven
city-states and to leave the rural areas under Israeli control.
The seven city-states will free most of the Arab population in Judea
and Samaria from Israeli control and Israel can offer citizenship to
residents of the rural space. These city-states based on local clans
will be real entities and not the fantasies of some Palestinian
intellectuals and tired Israeli souls regarding the existence of a
single united Palestinian people in Gaza and in Judea and Samaria.
The Palestinian people exist just as the Syrian people do, the Iraqi,
Libyan or Sudanese people. The social reality in the Middle East is
rooted in the culture of the tribe, the ethnic group (Arabs, Kurds,
etc.), the religious group (Muslims, Druze, Alawites, Christians, etc.)
and sectarian group (Sunni, Shia, etc.). Only countries based on one
homogeneous group can survive in this area, and provide their citizens
with a reasonable life.
Israel must base its policy on reality, not on dreams and fantasies of a new Middle East.
I am an Orthodox Jew - some would even call me 'ultra-Orthodox.' Born in Boston, I was a corporate and securities attorney in New York City for seven years before making aliya to Israel in 1991 (I don't look it but I really am that old :-). I have been happily married to the same woman for thirty-five years, and we have eight children (bli ayin hara) ranging in age from 13 to 33 years and nine grandchildren. Four of our children are married! Before I started blogging I was a heavy contributor on a number of email lists and ran an email list called the Matzav from 2000-2004. You can contact me at: IsraelMatzav at gmail dot com
