When I lived in Israel in the early 1960s, I never saw a single “Palestinian.” Not once. Not ever. Why? Because they hadn’t been invented yet. I saw Arabs, as they called themselves, but that was it. I have newspapers from the time to prove it.
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I have been told not to speak about this. That I am dehumanizing “Palestinians” when I speak the truth about my lived experience. That I am denying their alleged unique identity and culture, and therefore I have moral shortcomings. That the issue is settled, and so I should remain silent.
Yet, I cannot. As I see so many speak about “Palestinians” as though they are a unique people with a unique culture and history and therefore deserving of a state — taken from Israel — I must speak up. Because the Palestinian concept did not come about organically. It was created deliberately, with the intent to destroy Israel and Jewish sovereignty. What was the impetus for its invention?
Islam has been at war with Jews since its inception 1400 years ago. As Islam expert Robert Spencer documents, demonization of Jews is embedded in the Quran. For example, the Quran claims that Jews are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they love to listen to lies (5:41); they are disputing and quarreling (2:247); feel pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); they are merciless and heartless (2:74), they are transformed into apes and pigs (2:63-65, 5:59-60; 7:166) and Muslims should wage war against them to subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29). The critically relevant Sura 2:191 says “kill them (non-believers) wherever you come upon them and drive them out of the places from which they have driven you out.” This Islamic religious source of the conflict is something too few will speak about openly.
While not all the world’s two billion Muslims devoutly believe in the Quran, tens of millions do. Enough to create the Iranian Islamic revolution of 1979. Enough to create Hezb’allah (the party of Allah). Enough to create Hamas (Harakah al-Muqawamah al Islamiyyah), the Houthis (Ansar Allah), Palestinian Islamic Jihad, ISIS (Islamic State), and countless other Islamic terrorist organizations. Not surprisingly, all are intent on the Jewish state’s destruction.
Before modern Israel was founded, the Islamic world learned of the Zionist movement. They were horrified. They would not tolerate Jewish sovereignty over land they perceived as theirs in perpetuity. Suddenly, a part of the Ottoman Empire that had been ignored for centuries became important. Arabs started boycotting Jewish concerns in the early 1900s. In 1917, the Ottomans initiated a mass deportation, a forced, brutal march of 7,000 Jews out of Jaffa. In 1920, after WWI, the British Mandate of Palestine was created to establish a Jewish homeland. But in 1921, Arabs pressured Britain to give 77% of that land away, forbidding Jewish settlement in what became Jordan. The Arab revolt of 1936-39 forced Britain to end Jewish immigration and Jewish land purchases in the Mandate. When Israel declared independence in 1948, the Muslim Arab world again would not stand for it. Seven Arab armies attacked within 24 hours of Israel’s declaration. The Arabs lost, so what else could they do to destroy Jewish sovereignty?
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Since military options failed, Islamist Yasser Arafat and the Soviets devised another plan. Working together, in the early 1960s, they created a “Palestinian people” that the West would see as victims of Jews. No matter that “Palestinians” who had recently emigrated to the Mandate from countries like Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen were lumped together to create a unique Palestinian people — the world bought it.
In the following decades, Islamist activists invented a Palestinian history to delegitimize the existence of Jews in the land of Israel. Sadly, even Israelis went along with the lie. So much so that in the 1990s via the Oslo Accords, just 30 years after the Palestinian invention, Israelis and the world believed this newly contrived and disparate people deserved to have their own state. Taken from Israel of course.
Since the Palestinian invention — and with it a “Palestinian” state — is part of an Islamic religious jihad, it’s no wonder that negotiations have never worked and are not likely to in the future. While most Israelis have come to understand this.
This is an uncomfortable topic. Many will avoid it for fear of falsely being called immoral or an Islamophobe. Yet an honest understanding of Israel’s enemies is critical to the survival of the Jewish people. Validating the pretense of a unique indigenous “Palestinian” people is suicidal. “Palestinians” then remain Israel’s problem — the jihadis know it and celebrate.
I will not remain silent about the damaging “Palestinian” invention, for when all the witnesses are gone, who will be left to speak the truth?
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