- "The West Bank is occupied Palestinian land."
This phrase is frequently repeated, as a given, by all the governments
of the world and by the entire news media.
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- This idea that the West Bank is occupied Palestinian
land has been accepted by almost everyone. Yet it is, in fact, the greatest
lie ever perpetrated on the whole of humanity.
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- If you think this is an outlandish statement, please
read on and decide for yourself.
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- Palestinians claim that Palestine is their land, and
that Jerusalem is their capital, and that Israel is occupying their land.
To resist occupation, they assert the right to send suicide bombers into
crowded bus stations, pizza parlors, etc., and kill innocent men, women
and children. And all Arab and Muslim countries support them in their claims
and actions against Israel.
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- Because of this alleged occupation of Palestinian land
by Israel, because of this alleged crime committed against their Palestinian
brothers, all Arabs hate Israel and want to destroy it.
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- To anyone who is familiar with the facts, and has an
objective eye, all this must be fascinating. Because never before has a
complete lie, on such a large scale, been so successful.
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- First, if Arab animosity toward Israel is based on their
love and support for their Palestinian brothers - and in wanting their
Palestinian brothers to have their own state - where was that love and
support before the Jewish state existed? Where were they when the kingdom
of Jordan ruled Palestine? Why were they not accusing Jordan of occupying
Palestinian land? Why did not the Arab world and the United Nations call
on Jordan to stop occupying Palestinian land? Second, where were the Palestinians
themselves, with all their grievances and claims, when Jordan occupied
the whole West Bank, including Jerusalem?
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- Did you know that? Did you know that for 19 years, Jordan
occupied and ruled the whole West Bank, including Jerusalem? Why didn't
they clamor for a Palestinian state then?
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- All this time, did we hear a word about Palestine being
occupied by the kingdom of Jordan? Did we hear anything about a Palestinian
state? Or about Jerusalem being the capital of Palestine?
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- No, we did not.
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- Why not?
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- Because there never existed a Palestinian state.
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- And in the entire history of nations, Jerusalem was never
the capital of any country other than that of ancient Israel and modern
Israel. So how can there be a claim on Jerusalem as the capital of a state
that never existed?
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- One of the problems here is that so few people know the
history of the world. Hence, lies and more lies, repeated often enough,
are assumed to be facts.
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- I have heard many scholars, including an Arab journalist,
question the very notion of a Palestinian people. What, they ask, makes
a people? Well, there are four elements that define a people: language,
religion, culture and cuisine. For example, the Chinese and Japanese are
both Oriental. Still, they are two different peoples, because they each
have a different language, a different religion, a different culture and
a different cuisine.
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- The Palestinians speak the same language, follow the
same religion, manifest the same culture and eat the same cuisine as all
other Arabs. They are really Arabs who happen to live in a region called
Palestine.
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- Palestine is not - and never was - the name of a country,
or the name of a people.
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- It is the name of a region - just like Siberia is a region,
not a country. There is no Siberian country, nor is there a Siberian people.
It is a region. Just like the Sahara is a region, not a country. There
is no Saharan country, nor is there a Saharan people. The Arabs living
in that region are Libyans, Moroccans, etc. It is a region.
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- Because Palestine is a region, not a country, England
was able to carve out half of it and give it to the Arabs living on the
other side of the Jordan River and call it the kingdom of Jordan. Because
Palestine is a region, the United Nations was able to divide the rest of
it between the Jews and the Arabs living there. Had the Arabs accepted
the United Nations resolution, there would have been a newly created Arab
state called Palestine. Instead, they rejected the United Nations compromise
and went to war to destroy Israel. They lost the war. Hence, no Palestinian
state.
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- Here are some cold facts.
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- King David built the city of Jerusalem, and King Solomon,
David's son, built the holy temple. This commonwealth of Israel lasted
for a thousand years. There was only one break, when, 400 years after King
David, the Babylonian invaders occupied the land for 70 years. Then, with
the help of Cyrus the Great of Persia - yes, Persia - Israel came back
to the land, rebuilt the temple and ruled for another 600 years.
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- Then, the Romans came and ruled the land, then the Crusaders
ruled the land, then the Ottoman Empire ruled the land, then the British
Empire ruled the land, then Israel returned to its homeland and built a
modern Jewish state. It was never - repeat, never - a Palestinian state.
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- So what is all this talk about occupied Palestinian land?
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- They certainly have a right to live there freely and
happily. Nobody wants to move them away from their land. But from where
comes the right for a Palestinian state? Is it because they live there?
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- Imagine if the Mexican-American community in California,
whose numbers are greater than the number of Palestinians in the West Bank,
decides tomorrow to claim that the United States is occupying their land,
because they live there and they want their own Mexican state. Imagine
if, when the U.S. government says, "No, you can live here, but you
cannot have sovereignty, you cannot have your own state," they start
sending suicide bombers, shooters, mortars, etc. into the rest of the country.
What do you think would happen?
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- This is precisely why there was never any suggestion
of a Palestinian state - not under the Romans, not under the Crusaders,
not under the Turks, not under the English and not under the Arab kingdom
of Jordan - until after Israel was again established in its homeland.
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- I believe it is the big lie of our generation, and we
are all buying into it.
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- Whatever you believe, don't you think these facts deserve
to be raised when discussing Middle East policies?
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- Sharon Nader Sloan, Esq., is a Lebanese-American.
- Original Publication 12-15-01.
- http://wnd.com
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- The one and only real point of this whole article is
that there was NO "nation" of Palestine, either before Israel
annexed the West Bank or after.
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- We addressed this exact point in our article, Machiavellian
Machinations Underlie Creation of Modern-Day Israeli. In fact we state
this exact same thing. Those nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes which at the
time of the establishment of the zionist state and beforehand inhabited
the areas now called Israel AND the West Bank, did not HAVE a central,
"federalist" government. There WAS no de facto "nation"
in the region now called Israel.
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- And while we're at it here, these previous inhabitants
of the region were and are NOT actually Palestinians. The name of "Palestine"
was CREATED by the principals of the 'British Israel" movement in
the early 20th century which led to the creation of Israel in 1948.
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- According to this impeccably twisted Zionist logic set
forth by Sharon Nader Sloan and so many others, because of the fact these
Arabs -- human beings, that is -- had no strong, central national GOVERNMENT,
they actually are not even worthy of being called human and are as low
as stray dogs.
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- However: whatever you want to call these human beings,
it is UNDENIABLE that they DID and DO INHABIT this region, and HAVE DONE
So for MANY, many thousands of years at least.
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- Whether or NOT they had -- or HAVE -- any centralized,
national government, they are HUMAN BEINGS, AND HAVE BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS,
which ISRAEL is MASSIVELY and unconscionably ABUSING.
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- What is there about this undeniable and unalterable statement
of fact which so many Israelis and their supporters cannot or WILL not
comprehend?
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