Time To Set The Record Straight

Time to Set The Record Straight

The notion that the Falastinians, aka; “Palestinians” are a people is a lie that has lived on through the ages perpetuated by world leaders, the so called main stream media, and our own government.

To Muslims and Arabs across the globe:

“Reject hate, embrace love. Bring out the best in Islam by showing your compassion, gratitude and forgiveness. Make the holy land truly holy by giving Israel and the Jewish people the respect they deserve in their tiny little country. This is not a crisis over land. It is a crisis of the soul; a crisis in our faith, judgement and self confidence. Israel should not be regarded as an enemy, but as a blessing to our neighborhood. We need not fear peace, but embrace it.”
A statement by Arabs For Israel.

Most of us would agree that is a powerful statement which contradicts many teachings in the Muslim world. Globally Muslims and non-Muslims alike condemn the Jews.

There have been many articles, essays, and documents calling for and supporting the complete annihilation of the tiny country of Israel, and wiping the Jews from the face of the earth.
Anti-Semitism has been with us for a very long time, indeed it almost seems in vogue or fashionable these days to “blame” the Jews for all the troubles in the Middle East.

Israel is tiny by comparison to her neighbors, literally surrounded by 22 Arab nations with a land mass hundreds of times the size of Israel.
For statistics and maps go here.


Let’s start at the beginning.

Where is “Palestine” and who are the “Palestinians”?

The recent land for peace endeavor in Annapolis, Maryland is a delusional legacy project doomed to fail as all other peace initiatives have over the past several decades.
In recent weeks the disturbing news that governments and international groups have pledged $7.4 billion dollars over the next three years to the “Palestinians”.

Since when does “throwing” money at terrorists bring about peace? Especially since their stated purpose is to “wipe Israel off the face of the earth”. The question begs an answer.

The Madrid Summit of 1991was another pathetic attempt to bring about peace in the Middle East.

This proposed peace deal brought about the destruction of the Israeli economy and insured the ever increasing terrorist acts of violence that have continued to this day.
Nearly everyday for the past several years Israel has received rocket attacks and other acts of violence. A peaceful gesture by the falsely named “Palestinians”?
The Madrid Summit failed to achieve the peace intended, so will the Annapolis conference and giving money to aid and abet terrorists.

What these people fail to recognize is basic to understanding a complicated problem. Perhaps the following will help dispel some of the myths of “Palestine” and a so called “Palestinian” people.

Many myths have been handed down through the ages about these people.
The word “myths’ is perhaps too kind in my opinion. In reality they are nothing more or less than lies.

Tell the lies often enough and long enough and the majority will begin to believe them.

The fact is there is no such land as “Palestine”, neither is there a race of people called “Palestinians”.

"There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist."
--Golda Meir, statement to The Sunday Times,
15 June, 1969 and quoted by Sarah
Honig, 25 November 1995.

"From the end of the Jewish state in antiquity to the beginning of British rule, the area now designated by the name Palestine was not a country and had no frontiers, only administrative boundaries . . . ."
-- Professor Bernard Lewis Princeton University Quote taken from Commentary Magazine, January 1975.

"Palestine has never existed . . . as an autonomous entity. There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc.

"Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 percent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of one percent of the land mass. But that's too much for the Arabs. They want it all. And that is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today . . . No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough."
--Joseph Farah, Arab-American journalist, "Myths of the Middle East"
More here from Joseph Farah.

There is no recorded history of “Palestine”. It has never been a state or a nation.
The word itself is derived from “Peleshet” and frequently appears in the Bible.

During the thirteenth century BC, a people commonly referred to as the “Sea Peoples” migrated from the Aegean Sea and Greek Islands settling in the southern coastal land of Canaan.
Five independent city-states, including Gaza, were established and came to be known as “Philistia”. The Romans and Greeks of the time called it “Palestina”.

Philistines are not Arabs, certainly not Semites and had no connection ethnic, linguistic or historical to Arabia or Arabs. The Arab pronunciation of “Palestina”, a Greco-Roman name, is “Falastin”.

For more detail on this please go here and here.

Quote from Charles Krauthammer - The Weekly Standard, May 11, 1998;
“Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity; It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name, speaks the same language, and worships the same God that it did 3,000 years ago. You dig the soil and you find pottery from Davidic times, coins from Bar Kokhba, and 2,000 year-old scrolls written in a script remarkably like the one that today advertises ice cream at the corner candy store.”

Read the rest of the story here.

A more detailed look into the “myths” can be found here.

“If American Middle East policy could be represented as an archeological dig, it would look something like this: the Zinni Mission would be resting atop the ruins of the Tenet Work Plan, which would be crushing the remains of the Mitchell Commission Report, which would be settled on remnants of the pillaged Sharm al Sheikh agreement, all of which would be weighing down the collapsed foundations of the shattered Oslo Accords.”
--Avi Davis, World Net Daily.

"Today, most of the Arab/Islamic world focuses its genocidal hatred on the Jewish State exactly as Europe once focused this same hatred on the individual Jew. There is now no greater Jewish responsibility than to prevent a second Holocaust... and it is nothing short of a Holocaust that the Arab/Islamic world now wishes and plans for Israel." --Louis Rene Beres, 9/9/04 Lecture to the Dawn R. Schuman Institute. No links available.

BIG LIES:
Demolishing The Myths of the Propaganda War Against Israel
by David Meir-Levi
The .pdf can be found here.

THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS TEXT by David Horowitz

The War in the Middle East is nearly sixty years old. Most people alive today are unfamiliar with its history and origins and lack knowledge of its facts. This state of ignorance provides a fertile ground for the unscrupulous to create myths that will justify their destructive agendas. The political propaganda machine has created many such myths to fuel their war against the Jewish state.

Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East that elects its lead­ers in free elections and guarantees rights to its citizens, and honors those rights. Yet Israel is the target of those who claim to be fighting for “human rights.” There are about a million and a half Arabs living as citizens in Israel who elect representatives to Israel’s parliament and who have more rights than the Arab citizens of any Arab state. Yet Israel is the target of those who claim to be fighting for “social justice.” Israel’s very creation is referred to by its Arab enemies as "the Nakba", or the “catastrophe,” the clear implication of which is that Israel should not exist. Yet Israel is the target of those who claim to support self-determination and oppose genocide. Israel was the victim – at its very birth -- of an unprovoked aggression by five Arab mon­archies and dictatorships. It has been the target of an Arab war that has continued uninterruptedly for nearly sixty years because the Arab states have refused to make peace. Yet Israel is the target of those who say they want “peace.” Israel is the victim of terrorist attacks – sui­cide bombings – which along with the Jews they mark for extinction, kill Palestinian women and children as well.

Yet Israel is the target of those who claim to speak for humanity and a future that is “free.”
How is this possible? How can evil be dressed in the garments of justice? How can a genocidal war to destroy a democratic people be justified as a struggle for “national liberation?”
They can through the creation of political myths that rationalize aggression and justify war against civilian populations.

Read the continuation here.

In conclusion: Between The Lines, by Joseph Farah
Posted: September 19, 20021:00 a.m. Eastern

The worlds collective amnesia.

Yasser Arafat may have lost some of his personal political clout of late, but the political movement he began – demanding justice for Palestinian Arabs expelled from their homes in 1948 – remains as strong as ever.

There's just one problem. There's not the slightest historical evidence to suggest Arabs were expelled in significant numbers – certainly not by Jews.

I know this statement is going to be met with gasps, guffaws and gnashing of teeth. Nevertheless, let me defend it, not with my own words, not with the words of Jews and Israelis, but with the words of Arabs closer to the time of the events.

"The fact that there are these refugees is the direct consequence of the act of the Arab states in opposing partition and the Jewish state. The Arab states agree upon this policy unanimously and they must share in the solution of the problem."– Emile Ghoury, secretary of the Palestinian Arab Higher Committee, in an interview with the Beirut Telegraph Sept. 6, 1948.

"The Arab state which had encouraged the Palestine Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies, have failed to keep their promise to help these refugees."– The Jordanian daily newspaper Falastin, Feb. 19, 1949.

"Who brought the Palestinians to Lebanon as refugees, suffering now from the malign attitude of newspapers and communal leaders, who have neither honor nor conscience? Who brought them over in dire straits and penniless, after they lost their honor? The Arab states, and Lebanon amongst them, did it."– The Beirut Muslim weekly Kul-Shay, Aug. 19, 1951.

"The 15th May, 1948, arrived ... On that day the mufti of Jerusalem appealed to the Arabs of Palestine to leave the country, because the Arab armies were about to enter and fight in their stead."– The Cairo daily Akhbar el Yom, Oct. 12, 1963.

"For the flight and fall of the other villages it is our leaders who are responsible because of their dissemination of rumors exaggerating Jewish crimes and describing them as atrocities in order to inflame the Arabs ... By spreading rumors of Jewish atrocities, killings of women and children etc., they instilled fear and terror in the hearts of the Arabs in Palestine, until they fled leaving their homes and properties to the enemy."– The Jordanian daily newspaper Al Urdun, April 9, 1953

Read the entire article here

The intent of this article is not to prove my opinion. It is posted here to promote thinking for yourself and to provide a historical look at the serious problems we face when attempting to reveal the truth about this subject.

As I stated earlier tell a lie often enough and long enough and soon it becomes the “new” truth.

The subject is complicated to say the least and this one article cannot possibly hope to dispel the myths and the lies we have come to accept as fact. It is a start.
All I ask of you the reader is digest this with an open mind and follow the links. There are more to follow.

Some of the material cited above is found in the book From Time Immemorial by Joan Peters.

Other sources include Professor Bernard Lewis, Princeton University and his book “The Middle East, A Brief History of the Last 2000 Years”.

Joseph Farah Arab-American journalist and his book “Myths of The Middle East” also the CEO of World Net Daily.

Much of the rest was researched from the following sources;

Palestine Facts Note: There are several links here that cover a wide range of time periods. Be prepared to spend a little time reading.

The Israel Report

The Balfour Declaration

Mandate Palestine

Six-Day War in 1967

Dave Hunt

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Myth vs Fact-Part 199

Myth	Fact
Islam: Religion of peace.	Sahih Bukhari Volume 4, Book 52, Number 190: Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Abbas: Allah's Apostle sent his letter to Khusrau and ordered his messenger to hand it over to the Governor of Bahrain who was to hand it over to Khusrau. So, when Khusrau read the letter he tore it. Said bin Al-Musaiyab said, "The Prophet then invoked Allah to disperse them with full dispersion, (destroy them (i.e. Khusrau and his followers) severely)".
Tafsir

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Four Blind Fools

Most of the Republican aspirants made fools of themselves in ABC's "debate" Saturday night. I will quote them out of context. To see the quotes in context, click this link to the transcript.


I'll pick on Governor Romney first.

But we're going to have to move our strategy from simply being a respond to military threat with military action to an effort that says we're going to use our military and nonmilitary resources -- nonmilitary resources -- combined with other nations who are our friends to help move the world of Islam toward modernity and moderation.

The Governor exposes abject ignorance of Islam. As defined by its canon of scripture & tradition, Islam is intolerant, militant, violent & imperialistic. And irreformable.

The new mission for NATO and for other nations is to help provide the rule of law, education that's not through madrassas, agricultural and economic policies that can be instilled in various Islamic countries, so the Muslims are able to reject the extreme and the terrorists.

It is not possible to reject terrorism without rejecting Islam; terrorism is an intrinsic sacrament of the murder cult, sanctified by 3:151, commanded by 8:12 and exemplified in 33:26-27 & 59:2 and confirmed by Bukhari 4.52.220 and 1.7.331. Likewise, genocide is commanded in 8:67 & 47:4 and confirmed by Abu Dawud 38.4390.

We do need -- I agree with what the mayor said -- we need to add to our military by at least 100,000 troops. But the answer is to move now to a second phase, a phase of helping Muslims become so strong they can reject the extreme.

Strengthen our enemy and then what? They'll attack us with renewed vigor and ability, that's what!! They can not reject the command to fight Jews & Christians until we are subdued and pay extortion. That command is clearly stated in 9:29 and confirmed by Bukhari 1.8.387 and 4.53.386. Muslims can not reject Islam's damnable doctrines without rejecting Islam!

I'd read what they write to one another. And that's why when someone like Sayyid Qutb lays out the philosophy of radical jihadism and says, "We want to kill..."

Qutb did not invent Islamic doctrine which mandates Jihad, terror & genocide, Moe did.[Citations in previous comment.] Romney does not know this fatal fact because he has not read Islam's canon of scripture & tradition. Neither has he read Islamic law, which far predates Qutb, and declares that "The Caliph makes war upon Jews and Christians." [Reliance of the Traveler: Book O, Ch. 9, Section 8.]

The reason -- why did they kill Madam Bhutto? It has nothing to do with us. This has to do with a battle that is going on within the world of Islam, of radical, violent jihadists trying to bring down all moderate Islamic people and nations and replace them with a religious caliphate.

So close, yet so far from comprehending the truth! He does not understand that Allah commands Muslims to conquer the entire world.

Next, I'll take on Mayor Giuliani.

It seems to me, if you don't face this squarely -- there's an Islamic, terrorism threat against us. It's an existential threat. It has nothing to do with our foreign policy. It has to do with their ideas, their theories, the things that they have done and the way they've perverted their religion into a hatred of us.

But they have not perverted their religion into hatred! Islam is perpetual war, not a religion! Like Gov. Romney, the Mayor is ignorant of Islam. He does not know that Moe, speaking for Allah, commanded Muslims to make war on Pagans until only Allah is worshiped and to make war on Jews & Christians until we are subdued and pay extortion.

And what's at stake are the things that are best about us: our freedom of religion, our freedom for women, our right to vote, our free economic system. Our foreign policy is irrelevant -- totally irrelevant. If you read what they write, if you bother to listen to what they say, this comes out of their own perverted thinking.

No, Mr. Mayor, it comes directly from Islam's canon of scripture & tradition: Qur'an & Hadith, which I have cited in a previous comment. Those ayat & ahadith are the basis of Islamic law, also previously cited. "The Caliph makes war..." these politicians don't get it.

It is important to make this point. Just the opposite, Ron. I have great respect for the Islamic religion. I have great respect for the Arab world, for the Middle East.

I think we should be closer to them. I think we should trade more with them. I think we should have cultural exchanges with them.

The overwhelming majority of the Islamic world...

... and on the evening of September 11, 2001, the day my city was attacked, I got on television, and I said to the people of my city, "We're not going to engage in group blame. This is a small group of people. This does not typify a great religion and a great people."

The mayor repeated one lie twice "I think". A thinking man would not make the statements to which I added bold face.

Next, Congressman Paul.

Let me try to explain so you can understand this better.

Try to visualize how we would react if they did that to us, if a country, say China, came that great distance across the ocean, and they say, "We want you to live like us. We want you to have our economic system. We want bases on your land. We want to protect our oil."

Even if we do that with good intentions -- even if the Chinese did that with good intentions, we would all be together and we'd be furious.

Blame America first, unaware of Allah's demonic commands; unaware of Moe's 86 conquests, unaware of the conquest of Yemen, Syria, North Africa, Greece, Spain, Turkey, Albania & India, all of which preceded the discovery & pumping of oil in the region.

There's always a radical element in almost all religions. They have to have an incentive. We give them that incentive.

The question that you don't -- aren't willing to ask is, why is it that they attack America? I mean, they don't attack the Canadians. They don't attack the Swiss. If it were merely because they wanted to go into Europe, why do they...

Blame America first. Radical element? Show me where in the Gospels & Book of Acts Jesus commands his disciples to make war. Show me where he leads them into battle. Show me where he commands them to engage in genocide and terrify their victims. Religion is defined by the rule--divine command--not the violation thereof.

You paint all Islamics... ... the same way, and this is a dangerous thing... What you're doing is damaging our relationship by destroying our relationship with all Muslims. That's what you're doing.

Our relationship to Muslims is prey: predator. Remember, Moe declared open season. You don't remember, Congressman? No, because, as a damned fool, you spout off without knowledge; you never read Islam's scripture & tradition. You are ignorant of these fatal facts: Allah's command & Moe's confirmation.

• 9:29 Fight against those who (1) believe not in Allâh, (2) nor in the Last Day, (3) nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allâh and His Messenger (4) and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islâm) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
• "I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.' And if they say so, pray like our prayers, face our Qibla and slaughter as we slaughter, then their blood and property will be sacred to us and we will not interfere with them except legally and their reckoning will be with Allah." Bukhari 1.8.387
• Our Prophet, the Messenger of our Lord, has ordered us to fight you till you worship Allah Alone or give Jizya (i.e. tribute); and our Prophet has informed us that our Lord says:-- "Whoever amongst us is killed (i.e. martyred), shall go to Paradise to lead such a luxurious life as he has never seen, and whoever amongst us remain alive, shall become your master."... Bukhari 4.53.386

Next, Gov Huckabee.:

The fact is when there is a serious threat to this country, it is not a threat because we happen to be peace-loving people. It's a threat because in the heart of the radical Islamic faith -- not all Islam, and that's what's very important.

Radical Islamic faith? Not all Islam? Another damned fool pontificating from the pedestal of ignorance. Jihad, genocide & terror are standard Islam, recited and exemplified by Moe; they are not exceptional.

This isn't an Islamic problem. This is a jihadist problem. This is an Islamo-fascism problem.

And if you read the writings of those who most influenced -- and Governor Romney mentioned Sayyid Qutb, executed in Egypt in 1966. He is one of the major philosophers behind this.

And the fact is, there is nothing about our attacking them that prompts this. They are prompted by the fact they believe that they must establish a worldwide caliphate that has nothing to do with us other than we live and breathe and their intention is to destroy us.

Why won't you read the writings of the founder of Islam, Governor? Because you haven't read the Qur'an & Hadith, you are abysmally ignorant of Islam and mislead those you seek to govern.

These are the blind leading the blind; no more worthy or well qualified to lead this nation than the Democrat aspirants. I will cast my vote for Fred Thompson. If one of the others is nominated, I will do another write in.

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Chuck Muth: Federal Department of Toilets and Light Bulbs

I've mentioned a few times now my local, liberal left newspaper, the Tucson Citizen, has hired a new columnist, Chuck Muth. Mr. Muth is a refreshing conservative view in the vast wasteland of leftist views. I've subscribed to his daily emails and shown a few things he's written thus far.

Today I decided to visit Mr. Muth's website. Turns out, he's a conservative from Nevada and appears to be as impressed with ReidCo as the rest of the conservatives out there, which is to say, not much.

This is the post I received in today's email:

Federal Department of Toilets & Light Bulbs

How many congressmen does it take to change a light bulb? 400.

That’s how many members of Congress recently voted for a bill to force Americans to change the 50-cent incandescent light bulbs they’re currently using and replace them with expensive new, $3 “energy-efficient” light bulbs. As Shane Cory of the Libertarian Party sarcastically put it, “If you outlaw light bulbs, then only outlaws will have light bulbs.”

The ban, which takes effect in 2014, was included in the 2007 energy bill which 314 members of the United States House of Representatives and 86 members of the United States Senate voted for.

Nevada Sen. Harry Reid said he thought the light bulb ban was an appropriate exercise of federal power. Interesting company Reid’s keeping. Because when the bill was originally introduced by California Rep. Jane Harman last March, CNS News reported that two other countries had already taken similar steps to eradicate inexpensive incandescent light bulbs from the planet: Fidel Castro’s Cuba and Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela.

Unfortunately, this is nothing new for Congress. The light bulb ban is simply the latest example of an increasingly intrusive federal government butting into the day-to-day affairs of the average citizen.

Remember the 1992 energy bill, in which Congress banned the 3.5 gallon toilet? It mandated that that Americans no longer use more than 1.6 gallons per flush. Of course, per the immutable Law of Unintended Consequences, the new 1.6 gallon toilets turned out not to be enough to, er, get the job done. So folks found themselves flushing two and three times per visit, thus using the same amount of water, if not more, than they did before Congress stuck its nose into our bathrooms.

Excuse me, but would someone please show me where the federal Department of Toilets and Light Bulbs is authorized by the United States Constitution.

And make no mistake. Congress has no intention of stopping here. Still under active consideration is a new federal ban on top-loading washing machines, as well as a federal ban on disposable diapers. Seems some of our elected officials won’t be satisfied until we’re again washing out our cloth diapers on rocks by a steam in the pitch dark.

The late, great Sen. Barry Goldwater famously declared in the early 1960s that he would “not attempt to discover whether legislation is ‘needed’ before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible.” That sentiment has all but disappeared in the halls of Congress today. One notable exception is Arizona Rep. John Shadegg, a co-founder of the Goldwater Institute, whose proposed “Enumerated Powers Act” would require that “Each act of Congress…contain a concise and definite statement of the Constitutional authority relied upon for the enactment of each portion of that act.”

What a “revolutionary” notion.

Rep. Shadegg has introduced this bill in every Congress since 1995. And to give you an idea of how far Congress has drifted from the limited-government ideal of our Founders just over the last dozen years, the original bill had 103 co-sponsors. The same bill this year? Just 38. Goodnight, Constitution. I’ll leave a non-incandescent light bulb on for you.

This guy is worth a periodic read--he has a sense of humor and at the same time, makes perfect sense. Go visit his site here and grab a cup of coffee while you're at it. You're going to need some time to go through his work.

Cross posted at Grizzly Groundswell here and Real Clear Politics here.

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Myth vs Fact-Part 198

Myth	Fact
Islam: Religion of peace.	Sahih Bukhari Volume 4, Book 52, Number 188: Narrated Abu Huraira: Tufail bin 'Amr Ad-Dausi and his companions came to the Prophet and said, "O Allah's Apostle! The people of the tribe of Daus disobeyed and refused to follow you; so invoke Allah against them." The people said, "The tribe of Daus is ruined." The Prophet said, "O Allah! Give guidance to the people of Daus, and let them embrace Islam."
Tafsir

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