There are rallies going on all-across America in support of the Palestinians; in support of Hamas. Following the attacks by Hamas that murdered 1,300 civilians and took hundreds hostage, students at George Washington University held a “Vigil for the Martyrs of Palestine.” At the University of South Florida, Students for Socialism chanted, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” Their theme is easy to understand. Palestine, all of Palestine, rightfully belongs to the Palestinians. The Israelis are oppressors. Stealers of the land! But is there truth in these claims? And that narrative breeds the hate. The Antisemitism! In Australia they chanted, “Gas the Jews.” Shouldn’t that be incomprehensible in today’s so-called enlightened world? But it is not.
The fight for this land goes back dozens of generations. And if we look to the Scripture, we find one people has a clear call on the land. It all goes back thousands of years to Ishmael Abraham’s son of the handmaiden – and – Isaac, his son of the promise. Ishmael was the father of the Arab nation and Isaac was in the line of the Jews. Speaking of Ishmael God told Abraham, “I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.” (Genesis 17:20) (Hebrew Bible) But the Land would go to the offspring of Isaac. But the Lord appeared to Isaac and made this promise. “Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land of which I shall tell you. Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father. I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.” (Genesis 26:2-4) God’s word clearly gives the Land to Israel – and that includes Jerusalem. But there’s the rub.
The conflict that began thousands of years ago has never quite gone away. But the saddest part is that this is a conflict based on a myth – and that myth is the existence of the Palestinian People. What’s really going on is the biggest fake news story in a long time. Let me explain. There’s this imaginary land…No, no! The land is real…but there’s this imaginary people…Wait, let me get this right…the people are real….but they’re not who they say they are…and they’ve been lying about who they are for several decades now – so that they don’t even know that they’re lying any more….some of them at least, that they’re not the people that they say they are. Make sense? And you know what’s even crazier than that? Like, big chunks of the world believes them. World leaders and news guys and commentators; almost all the movers and shakers are buying into this…stuff…And they’re making it really hard on the folks that really do have the rights to this land. And right now all these movers and shakers are working real hard to get the guys & gals that really do have the rights to that land….well they’re trying to get them to give up a bunch of it – to this people that never really were. And listen. The imaginary people are even getting ready to declare statehood even as they riot and fight against the folks that have the rights to the land. OK, I admit it. I’m not making this up. It really is that crazy!
NO! Wait! That’s what’s really going on. Here’s the truth. As Former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir once declared: “There is no such thing as a Palestinian people.”[i] That was like wow politically incorrect and absolutely historically true. And this is supported by the very Arabs that invented and pushed the lie. In 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization to the Dutch paper Trouw, in which he spilled the beans.
“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. For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.”[ii]
The fact is: Israel moved into the territories only after Arab countries initiated wars of annihilation against the Jewish presence. Those Arab countries included Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Yemen. Did you notice? No Palestine! It didn’t exist. In the entire period from Israel’s modern founding in 1948 until the end of the 6-Day War, in 1967, (during the whole time that Egypt controlled Gaza and Jordan held the West Bank), – no mention was ever made of the Palestinian People.[iii] Curiously and conveniently, they only found their voice after that disastrous war. So let’s look at the History of the Land.”
In the beginning: There was no Palestine. The Israeli conquest took about 200 years beginning in 1200 BC. Before that Amalekites, Jebusites, Hittites, Amorites, and Canaanites among others, occupied the Land: – There were no Palestinians.[iv] Over time, as Israel struggled in their commitment to God, they struggled to maintain control of the land. Babylonians, Persians, Hasmoneans and Romans took their turns at ruling The Holy Land. Back around 63 BC, Rome turned the formerly independent Israel into an administrative district they renamed Palestine. (Since that time, all the peoples who would occupy the Land became known as Palestinians; – whether Greeks, Arabs or Jews.) In time the Caesars grew tired of an Israel always in revolt against Rome. In AD 70 and again in 135, Roman legions destroyed Jerusalem and dispersed hundreds of thousands of Jews into all the nations of the world. Yet through the centuries, a remnant always remained. In the centuries that followed came Byzantine Greeks, the conquering armies of Islam, the Crusaders, Mamluks, Ottoman Turks, and after WWI, – the British. Then in 1948, Israel regained a part of the Land.[v] The fact is The Jews have had a continuous presence there for 33 centuries. Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital since that time. As a matter of record, Mohammed never once even visited the Holy City. In fact it wasn’t until 635 AD that conquering Islamic armies, wrested control from its legitimate Jewish owners. So any Islamic claim can date only back to the 7th century; – while the Jewish presence always remained, even under Islamic occupation.
Back To The Beginning
Let’s review the making of the modern state of Israel from the perspective of the international community. The land called ‘Palestine’ was an arid, largely unproductive territory sparsely populated by Jews and itinerant Arabs. It had not served as a national homeland for any nation since the expulsion of the Jews centuries before. Population and productivity began to increase with the onset of the Zionist movement in the 1880’s. The arriving Jews were reclaiming the land. This meant more economic opportunity which drew an Arab population seeking employment. In 1917, in the middle of WWI, while the Turks controlled ‘Palestine’; – The British government issued the Balfour Declaration which seemed to promise to turn all of Palestine into a National Homeland for the Jews. As was anticipated, after the war, Great Britain was awarded Palestine by the League of Nations. The declaration read in part, “His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.” [The letter sounds like it is an altruistic statement of principles in favor of a Jewish State, but what was really meant was likely the establishment of a British colony in that territory.[vi] The fact is God uses the plans of men to advance HIS ultimate cause.]
By 1923, the British began to have a change of heart. At that time they divided Palestine into two districts; – 75% for Arabs and about a quarter for Jews. This was the creation of Jordan (or Trans-Jordan) , a state designated for the Arabs of Palestine to the east of the Jordan River. The Arab population was not satisfied. They launched a campaign of attacks against Jewish Palestinians that included the Hebron massacres of 1929 and the Arab Revolt of 1936-39. After WWII, Britain announced it was turning this troubling province back to the UN. In 1947, the UN divided the one-quarter of Palestine that was still allotted to the Jews even further. The Jews accepted this new arrangement while the Arab population rejected it, demanding all of Palestine.[vii] The surrounding Arab nations prepared to destroy the fledgling state. Despite the odds and knowing the consequences of their actions, the Israelis went ahead with their declaration. The next day, five Arab nations invaded the new country. The troops of Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Transjordan and Lebanon invaded from all points of the compass. God’s Word had spoken to this, thousands of years before. “Before she goes into labor, she gives birth; before the pains come upon her, she delivers a son. Who has ever heard of such a thing? Who has ever seen such things? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a moment? Yet no sooner is Zion in labor than she gives birth to her children.” (Isaiah 66:7-8) Israel had indeed been born in one day and the labor of war followed the birth of the nation.
Now before the Arab nations invaded, they broadcast word to the Arabs living in the Jewish territories to leave in order to facilitate the slaughter of the Jewish population there. They wanted their armies to have free reign to deal with Jewish combatants and civilians alike. This commitment to the destruction of the Jews was a natural outgrowth of the Arab / Nazi alliance. This ideological cooperation began when Hitler took office and involved Syria, the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who personally supervised the execution of Jews in Bosnia during the war.[viii] In the event, about 300,000 to 400,000 Arabs left the land before or early in the war, creating the refugee problem that has persisted ever since.
After 8 months of fighting against overwhelming odds, Israel won its independence, taking about 50% more territory than was allotted by the second partition of the land. The second Arab / Palestinian state that was to be set up by that partition, (besides Jordan), never came into being. Egypt occupied the Gaza Strip and Jordan took the Biblical lands of Judea & Samaria, or what became known as the West Bank. The Palestinian Arab population living there was given Jordanian citizenship, – as originally envisioned by the League of Nations plan. Although the British Balfour declaration had originally envisioned a Palestine that was 100% Jewish, Arabs occupied almost 85% of that territory. Yet those Arabs were not satisfied, demanding a full 100% of the land. Interestingly, during this period from 1949-1967, – while Gaza was held by Egypt and the West Bank by Jordan, – no attempt was made to set up a Palestinian State. No mention was ever made of the ‘rights of the Palestinian People’. The PLO, (Palestinian Liberation Organization) was not founded until 1964 and did not discover their “ancient” identity as a people until Israel took those territories after the Arab-caused ’67 War.[ix]
That war began when Egypt, Jordan and Syria massed along the Israeli borders, intent on annihilating the Jewish State. Israel instead launched a preemptive attack that led to total victory. Israel took over the much more defensible borders of Gaza, the West Bank, the Sinai and from Syria; the Golan Heights.[x] (Much later when peace was made with Egypt, Israel gave back the oil rich Sinai.) Israel also re-conquered their ancient capital of Jerusalem.
The Truth Comes Out
It was these territorial losses that ironically inspired the Arabs to invent the national aspirations of the so-called Palestinian People. In reality, the Palestinians were just the ancestors of Arabs who had migrated to the Land beginning in the late 19th century. They are ethnically, historically, religiously and culturally the same as those living in Jordan; – the state created for them out of the old British Mandate. That is exactly what was acknowledged by Zahir Mushein. (Remember: The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), – forerunner of today’s Palestinian Authority (PA), – was ostensibly founded to pursue the rights and national aspirations of the Palestinian People.
If you’ve noticed: The underlying theme of Arab / Islamic ideology is the complete destruction of Israel. They care not for the divisions of the land envisioned by past agreements. The founding documents of Hamas, Fatah, the Palestinian Authority, Hezbollah and other nationalist-terror groups all call for the eradication Israel as a nation. The PLO’s original charter admits in Article 1 that the: “Palestinian people are part of the Arab nation.”[xi] Even Yasser Arafat, was Egyptian.
The fact is, as Dennis Prager points out: The Arabs want nothing less than the whole enchilada. At Camp David, Arafat rejected a settlement that would have given them their own state on 97% of the West Bank. It wasn’t enough. They “don’t want a second state. They want Israel destroyed.”[xii] Shortly after the 1967 War with Israel, the united Arab countries offered Israel: “No peace, No recognition, No negotiations.” They have not wavered since. The peace process is a sham. Even Arafat’s Jerusalem representative called the Oslo agreements a “Trojan Horse.” “We are setting an ambush for the Israelis and cheating them.”[xiii] They mean to have it all. Thus is the legacy handed down from Nazi to Islamo-Fascist. But it goes back even farther than that, to the split between Abraham’s 2 sons; – Ishmael, by a slave woman being the father of the Arab race and Issac, the son of Sarah, Abraham’s wife. While the Lord promised to make Ishmael “into a great nation” He also promised that by “My covenant I will establish with Isaac.” (Genesis 17:20-21) And so, the resentment has grown over the centuries, as prophesied in Genesis 16:12. “And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him.”
Now though her Arab neighbors may say: “Come…let us destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel be remembered no more.” (Psalm 83:4) God has other plans! So, whose land is it? God has claimed Palestine as His land.[xiv] “The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine.” (Leviticus 25:23) All of it! And He has given it to Israel, through the line of Isaac. Forever! “Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession.” And one more thing. There is a whole lot more of it than Israel possesses now. “To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates.” (Genesis 15:18) Simple like that! Scratch beneath the surface – and it all starts to come together.
[i]Joseph Farah, Palestinian people do not exist, World Net Daily, July 11, 2002
[ii] Interview with Zahir Mushein, as recorded by Trouw (Netherlands), March 31, 1977, as quoted in Farah, Palestinian people do not exist, World Net Daily, July 11, 2002
[iii] Jerry, Golden, It’s all one big lie, The Golden Report, August 14, 2005
[iv] Numbers Chapter 13, The Bible
[v] Jerry, Golden, It’s all one big lie, The Golden Report, August 14, 2005
[vi] The Balfour Declaration: Britain’s fatal mistake in Palestine, Middle East Eye, viewed October 19, 2023
https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/britain-palestine-balfour-declaration-fatal-mistake
[vii] History of Israel, Masada 2000
[viii] Paul Longgrear, Raymond McNemar, The Arab / Muslim Nazi Connection,
Middle East Digest, April / May 2000
[ix] History of Israel, Masada 2000
[x] Six-Day War, MSN Encarta Encyclopedia
[xi] Daniel Pipes, The Movement’s Essential Principals, Daniel Pipes.org
[xii] The Middle East conflict…, Dennis Prager, Town Hall, July 18, 2006
[xiii] Interview with Faysal Al-Husseini, as reported in MEMRI #236, July 2, 2001
[xiv] See 2 Chronicles 7:20, Isaiah 14:25, Jeremiah 2:7, Ezekiel 36:5 & 38:16 etc.
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