Those Pesky Facts That Keep Surfacing with Every Middle East Lie

The Assyrian Empire at its height, showing the land of Judah, early lands of Israel - but no Palestine

The following is an email forwarded to me by our major contributor, Peter A. Baum.

Be sure to catch his current works on Blitz, where Peter is their International Affairs Editor.

The content of that email challenges some of the false narratives taken as truths regarding the Israel Palestinian debate, some unpalatable truths for Jew haters, pro Palestinians, antisemites, anti-Zionists etc…

FACTS

• The Jewish people are to Israel what

• the Aborigines are to Australia , what

• the Māoris are to New Zealand what

• the Native Indians are to North America and what

• the Zulus are to South Africa

However the Palestinians are to Israel what the Chinese are to Tibet - colonizers…

FACTS

If Israelis, Jews, or Zionists were truly colonizers then

• Hebrew would be the spoken language

• Judaism the main religion, and

• Zionism the main political ideology in numerous countries other than confined to the tiny and only Jewish state of Israel.

However, Arabic is the main language and Sunni or Shia Islam the main religion and ideology of numerous countries because of Islamic colonialism .

English as the main language and Christianity as the main religion is not confined to England but to numerous other countries through British colonialism.

Similarly French , Spanish and the Portuguese language and Catholicism as the main religion are common in Africa , the Caribbean and South America because of European colonialism.

So tell me who are the true colonizers ?

FACTS

Many supporting the false narrative that Jews / Zionists stole Palestinian land may wish to read The Land Question in Palestine by Kenneth W. Stein.

Through diligent and meticulously researching and identifying land transfer documentation from a number of historical legal, and thankfully still maintained sources, Arab, Jew, Palestinian, Zionist, and British, Stein has listed numerous land sales from Arabs to Jews prior to the re-establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.

To a political researcher such as myself it is unsurprising how many Arabs yelled foul at the false narrative of a Zionist land grab whilst duplicitously selling at overinflated prices to those very same Zionists they were accusing of land theft.

Both Churchill in several speeches and the Arabs themselves in recorded testimony under oath to various commissions notably the Hope Simpson and Peel Commissions stated that no Arab Palestinian land had been stolen but all legally acquired.

As just one glaring example appendix 3 of the book which exposes numerous such legally documented land sales is as follows…

Name of seller - Abu Hantash Abd al - Latif
Position / status / short biography - Village shaykh at Qaqun; participated in attacks on Jews at the Hadera massacre in 1921; helped to organise the Farmers Party in 1924 and organised opposition to Jewish purchase of Wadi Qabbani in the 1930’s.
Land sales - sold 821 dunams at Qaqun in 1925 for £P 2,564 in the Tulkarm sub district. (one dunam is 0.247 acres)


Name of seller - Basiso Khalil Yusuf
Position / status - Member of the Arab Executive, elected to 7th Gaza Congress Land sales - April 1942 sold 472 dunams to the Jewish National Fund in Gaza for £P 1200.00 (ref ISA , box 3874/ file 7 Schedule for April 1942) Second update Listed at the end of the post: the lands sold by the Sarsouk family (from Lebanon I believe) to Zionist organisations alluded to by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem under oath to Sir Laurie Hammond during the 1937 Peel Commission enquiry.

Further evidence of Arab land legally acquired…

Name of seller - Al Alami Musa
Position / status / short biography - Government advocate; private secretary to High Commissioner Wauchope; member of the Arab Delegation to the London Conference of 1939; brother-in-law of Jamal al - Husayni; in 1946 was a member of the Arab Executive Committee Land sales - sold 900 dunams of land in Beisan (as per minutes of St.James Palace Conference London Feb.20 1939 Ref CZA 525/7333).2

And the photo below is documenting proof of the land sales made by the Sarsouk family from Beirut, Lebanon to Jewish organisations and referred to by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem under oath to Sir Laurie Hammond during the Peel Commission Report of 1937…

FACT

‘’Isn’t it amazing that Israel is the only country in the whole world that bears the same name, speaks the same language, upholds the same faith, and inhabits the same land as it has for 3,000 years and yet is the one most accused of ‘settler-colonialism’ and told it should not exist 🤷‍♂️’’

~ Charles Krauthammer

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FACT

Not part of the above email, we added this segment…

Anthropological evidence is the main vehicle used to determine the past of any cultural group, whether nomads or an establish nation or country.

Most such evidence starts, if carbon dating is correct, millions of years ago.

PLENTY of such evidence is available in the Middle East for Arabs and Jews alike including those who tried to colonize in the Middle East, like the Assyrians mapped above - but there is absolutely none to be found for Palestinians until 1947, not even a means to carry life’s most essential element: water… it is essential to remaining alive in the nomadic or settled life anywhere on this earth.

So where is all the anthropological evidence of the so-called Palestinian state BEFORE 1947???

Yeah, THAT…