Material and sources for the class given June 1, 2021
BRIEF HISTORY OF JEWISH PALESTINE
The “Mandate for Palestine,” an historical League of Nations document, laid down the Jewish legal right to settle anywhere in western Palestine, a 10,000-square-miles3 area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
The legally binding document was conferred on April 24, 1920 at the San Remo Conference, and its terms outlined in the Treaty of Sèvres on August 10, 1920. The Mandate’s terms were finalized and unanimously approved on July 24, 1922, by the Council of the League of Nations, which was comprised at that time of 51 countries,4 and became operational on September 29, 1923.5
Great Britain [i.e., the Mandatory or Trustee] did turn over its responsibility to the United Nations as of May 14, 1948. However, the legal force of the League of Nations’ “Mandate for Palestine” [i.e., The Trust] was not terminated with the end of the British Mandate. Rather, the Trust was transferred over to the United Nations.
Recognition of the Historical Connection to Palestine
Fifty-one member countries – the entire League of Nations – unanimously declared on July 24, 1922:
“Whereas recognition has been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country.”6
Unlike nation-states in Europe, modern Lebanese, Jordanian, Syrian, and Iraqi nationalities did not evolve. They were arbitrarily created by colonial powers.
In 1919, in the wake of World War I, England and France as Mandatory (e.g., official administrators and mentors) carved up the former Ottoman Empire, which had collapsed a year earlier, into geographic spheres of influence. This divided the Mideast into new political entities with new names and frontiers.7
Territory was divided along map meridians without regard for traditional frontiers (i.e., geographic logic and sustainability) or the ethnic composition of indigenous populations.8
The prevailing rationale behind these artificially created states was how they served the imperial and commercial needs of their colonial masters. Iraq and Jordan, for instance, were created as emirates to reward the noble Hashemite family from Saudi Arabia for its loyalty to the British against the Ottoman Turks during World War I, under the leadership of Lawrence of Arabia. Iraq was given to Faisal bin Hussein, son of the sheriff of Mecca, in 1918. To reward his younger brother Abdullah with an emirate, Britain cut away 77 percent of its mandate over Palestine earmarked for the Jews and gave it to Abdullah in 1922, creating the new country of Trans-Jordan or Jordan, as it was later named.
ISRAEL’S EXCEPTIONALISM
The manner in which European colonial powers carved out political entities with little regard to their ethnic composition not only led to this inter-ethnic violence, but it also encouraged dictatorial rule as the only force capable of holding such entities together.9
The exception was Palestine, or Eretz-Israel – the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, where:
“The Mandatory shall be responsible for placing the country [ Palestine] under such political, administrative and economic conditions as will secure the establishment of the Jewish National Home, as laid down in the preamble, and the development of self-governing institutions, and also for safeguarding the civil and religious rights of all the inhabitants of Palestine, irrespective of race and religion.”10
Appropriation of the Name “Palestine”
The Palestinian Talmud, according to Oxford University
before local Jews began calling themselves Israelis in 1948 (when the name “Israel” was chosen for the newly-established Jewish State), the term “Palestine” applied almost exclusively to Jews and the institutions founded by new Jewish immigrants in the first half of the 20th century, before the state’s independence.
Some examples include:
The Jerusalem Post, founded in 1932, was called The Palestine Post until 1948.
Bank Leumi L’Israel, incorporated in 1902, was called the “Anglo-Palestine Company” until 1948.
The Jewish Agency – an arm of the Zionist movement engaged in Jewish settlement since 1929 – was initially called the Jewish Agency for Palestine.
Today’s Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, founded in 1936 by German Jewish refugees who fled Nazi Germany, was originally called the “Palestine Symphony Orchestra,” composed of some 70 Palestinian Jews.17
The United Jewish Appeal (UJA) was established in 1939 as a merger of the United Palestine Appeal and the fund-raising arm of the Joint Distribution Committee.
Encouraged by their success at historical revisionism and brainwashing the world with the “Big Lie” of a Palestinian people, Palestinian Arabs have more recently begun to claim they are the descendants of the Philistines and even the Stone Age Canaanites.18 Based on that myth, they can claim to have been “victimized” twice by the Jews: in the conquest of Canaan by the Israelites and again by the Israelis in modern times – a total fabrication.19 Archeologists explain that the Philistines were a Mediterranean people who settled along the coast of Canaan in 1100 BCE. They have no connection to the Arab nation, a desert people who emerged from the Arabian Peninsula.
As if that myth were not enough, former PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat also claimed, “Palestinian Arabs are descendants of the Jebusites,” who were displaced when King David conquered Jerusalem.
Arafat also argued that “Abraham was an Iraqi.” One Christmas Eve, Arafat declared that “Jesus was a Palestinian,” a preposterous claim that echoes the words of Hanan Ashrawi, a Christian Arab who, in an interview during the 1991 Madrid Conference, said: “Jesus Christ was born in my country, in my land,” and claimed that she was “the descendant of the first Christians,” disciples who spread the gospel around Bethlehem some 600 years before the Arab conquest. If her claims were true, it would be tantamount to confessing that she is a Jew!
“Palestine” is the name given at that time to the land of Israel and to the Jewish National Home under the British mandate. There never existed an Arab Palestinian State, a Palestinian nation or a Palestinian people, or anything like it. In any case, according to what we wrote today, “the designated land for Arabs in Palestine is ‘Jordan’”
VIDEOS: who are the Palestinians? A Nation ? Or an invented ethnicity to appropriate the name “Palestine” and eventually displace the Jewish people from Israel?
Palestinians come from many countries in the Middle East.
Dr Mordechai Kedar on Palestinians origins
BLM and PALESTINIANS
Los Angeles Real Estate Mogul Mohamed Hadid Apologizes for Post Linking Israel to Police Brutality in United States
Los Angeles Real Estate Mogul Mohamed Hadid Apologizes for Post Linking Israel to Police Brutality in United States
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/blm-leaders-get-rich-by-exploiting-black-community-attacking-israel/.
“We at the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel have been asking this question for years now, and still have not received an answer: If Black Lives Matter is supposed to be about police killings of unarmed Black people, why is part of its focus on Israel thousands of miles away–as opposed to, for example, the African slave trade in Libya, Saudi Arabia, Mauritania or Qatar? “
SIMILARITIES
- Police brutality : Israel brutality. Selective victims.
- Only those who killed by police. Only those killed by Israel. In both case, the initial act of violence is premeditated. The death of the victim is not.
3. Directing the blame to the wrong party: teach not to resist arrest!!! La Hage court: blames Israel for the Gaza conflict. And so does the United Nations Human Right committee.
4. Final goal: defund police. Defund Israel. To increase chaos, anarchy and enabling criminals to do their job undisturbed.
5. RICH CORRUPT LEADERS:
RECOMMENDED: The Americanization of the Israeli Palestinian Debate
Israel’s Problems Are Not Like America’s
When many Westerners peer out at the world, what they’re really looking for is a mirror.
By Matti Friedman
PALESTINIAN REFUGEES
Palestinian exceptionalism is just a function of the world embracing systemic antisemitism. Palestinian exceptionalism is not about Palestinians but about “treating exceptionally the enemies of the Jews”. If the Palestinians were fighting Turkey instead of Israel, no one would care about Palestinians. And if the Kurds will be fighting Israel, they will, be treated exceptionally well.
Why are Palestinian refugees different from all other refugees?
Aug 30, 2018
The unique status afforded to Palestinians is the single biggest stumbling block to achieving peace
Recommended articles: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/why-are-palestinian-refugees-different-from-all-other-refugees/
Recommended books: Myths and Facts, a guide to the Arab Israeli Conflict
DOWNLOAD FREE PDF HERE : https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/images/mf2017.pdf
THE CASE FOR ISRAEL,
by Alan Dershowitz:
DOWNLOAD FREE PDF HERE: https://veritas5777.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/alan-dershowitz-the-case-for-israel-2003.pdf
Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth April 6, 2021 by Noa Tishby
