If Jesus died for everyone’s sins, what is going to happen to Newt Gingrich.
He had the audacity to shine a light under the rock that hides the truth about the Palestinian Arabs.
Just to rehash and refute some of their claims of being the aboriginal inhabitants of ancient Palestine since the beginning of time.
1. They are the descendants of Canaanites whose land was stolen by the ancient Hebrews. Canaanite culture ceased to exist a few thousand years ago and when was the last time anyone identified themselves as a Canaanite.
2.They are the descendants of Philistines who ruled the lane before the Jews arrived. They might get some traction here as the term philistine, in western lexicon for centuries has meant an uncultured low life derelict. Besides that, the Philistines were seafaring colonizers from the Aegean who conquered the coastal plain of present day Israel and whose culture also ceased to exist a few thousand years ago. So if the Palestinian Arabs really are Philistines instead of just merely philistines, they should go back to Crete.
3. The Romans, as punishment for a Jewish rebellion, renamed the territory Palestine because the Philistines hated Jews. For two thousand years Palestine referred to a vague geographic area, not an ethnic population. Unless you mean between 1900 and 1948, in which case “Palestinian” meant Jews, as opposed to Arabs, who were referred to as Arabs.
The reality is that Arabian Muslims who conquered the area 1500 years ago left a remnant population behind which until recently identified themselves by their tribe or village as a subset of being part of the Arab community.
Throw in indigenous Jews and Christians who converted over the millennium,and Arabs who immigrated from every other country in the Mid-East because in the early 20th century Zionists provided them with jobs and prosperity.
Mix it all together with a political ideology and strategy to use an element of the Arab community as a weapon against Jews and lo and behold, the ancient and noble heritage of Palestinian Arabacy is born.
The fact that they are, as Newt pointed out, invented; they are no more invented than many other invented peoples, such as Syrians, Jordanians, Iraqis or Saudis, whose nations are all a conglomerate of disparate ethnicities and tribes with borders delineated after WWI, by imperial colonial powers of western Europe.
The fact that the philistines are invented does not make them any less real. These other ragtag groups have managed to forge national identities,and the Palabs have created the perception of an additional one, no less real than say an identity of being Italian or British.
So, you must be saying, doesn’t this grant them the right to their own homeland?
Well, when the Palestine mandatory power split the geographic area in two, Jews in Transjordan (the part of Palestine east of the Jordan River) were forced to relocate across the river. Why were the Arabs left behind no longer Palestinian?
That’s right, because the British, who abandoned their assignment under the League of Nations and the Treaty of San Remo, treated the place like a colonial possession and gave it over to their friends from the Arabian Peninsula, putting outsiders in charge of Palestinian Arabs.
The reality is that Palabs already have their own country, it’s called Jordan, but they don’t get to rule it.
At this point they shouldn’t be allowed to either because it will only be a launching pad for attacks on Jews.
When a national identity and culture exist only to de-legitimize,deny and destroy another nation willing to live at peace with them, they have not earned the right to live as a nation among other nations.
If the Palabs can demonstrate that they can act like human beings in a civilized world maybe they will get some where. In the mean time they can expect to be treated like shitbirds.
Happy Hanukah
