Arafat killed more Jews after he received the Nobel Peace Prize than he did before. And Biden wants the Arab vote, so he is publicly punishing four Israelis, but not Mahmoud Abbas who rewards Arab murderers. A look at hard facts and history.
Joseph TrumpeldorFlash 90
When you examine the rhetoric of pro-Palestinians, when you cut through the fraud and lies of their narrative, one thing is clear. They all hate Jews. The Palestinian Arabs themselves, however, take it one stage further. They slaughter Jews.
They may dress it up in a supposedly “righteous” cause but, at the end of the day, all they have is this obsession with murdering Jews. Always have, even before they adopted a “Palestine” cause to cloak their anti-Semitism in a garb of nationalism.
Arabs were murdering Jews in the Middle East before there was a Palestinian Arab cause. They did it out of greed and envy of Jews who built and succeeded when they failed. Instead of learning from them, they killed and plundered.
Echoes of Gaza and the PA? No matter how many billions you give them they waste it on ways to murder Jews.
In the ensuing battle, eight Jews, including two women and the one-armed Jewish hero, Joseph Trumpeldor, who had fought with the British to liberate Palestine from the Turks and the Germans in 1917, were killed before the Arabs took off with whatever they could find. This losing battle became a symbolic landmark in Jewish folklore. Nothing to do with “Palestine” or statehood. Just violent lawless theft.
Haj Amin al-Husseini was the Islamic mufti of Jerusalem with a passionate hatred of Jews. In 1920, he perverted what had traditionally been a joyous annual Muslim festival of Nebi Musa into a mass Arab pogrom against the Jews in Jerusalem, which had been a Jewish majority town since 1860. Haj Amin al-Husseini whipped the Muslim crowds into a frenzy, ordering them to do what their fellow Arabs had done in the Galilee and other places in pre-state Palestine.
The following year, incited Arabs rioted in Jaffa. According to reports at the time, Arab men bearing clubs, knives, swords, and some pistols broke into Jewish buildings and murdered their inhabitants, while women followed to loot. They attacked Jewish pedestrians and destroyed Jewish homes and stores. They beat and killed Jews in their homes, including children, and in some cases split open the victims’ skulls – but the Jews fought back.
By 1929, Arab riots had spread to Hebron, a town in which had had a Jewish presence since the days of Abraham. Sixty-nine Jews were killed under the lie that Jews were planning to seize control of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. This blasphemy has always been a fake, but always works as a trigger point for Jew-hating Arab leaders.
Echoes during the October 7th Palestinian Hamas atrocities.
As the British approached, al-Husseini, with the aid of the Nazis, once again evaded British justice by fleeing to Berlin where he met Adolph Hitler and proposed the Final Solution to the Jewish Problem starting in Palestine. He was given control of a radio station to incite Muslims against Jews. He was given a Muslim army to indoctrinate and train. He visited concentration camps with Heinrich Himmler. All part of his plan for the extermination of Jews in the Middle East.
Arafat learned his political strategy under the tutelage of the Soviets and his guerilla tactics in Vietnam. But his anti-Semitism? That he got from al-Husseini.
When he began his murderous terror campaign against the Jews of Israel, he did not do it in the name of “Palestine”. In his own words to Italian journalist, Arianna Palazzi in 1970, “The question of borders doesn’t interest us. What you call Palestine is nothing but a drop in an enormous ocean. Our nation is the Arabic nation. The PLO is fighting in the name of Pan-Arabism. What you call Jordan is nothing more than Palestine.”
There you have it in his own words. The leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization telling the world that he was leading a guerrilla army fighting for a bigger cause, to dispossess the Jews in the name of Pan-Arabism, and admitting that Jordan is Palestine.
Only later, after he had raised a 40,000 strong army, hijacked planes to Jordan and blew them up, challenging King Hussein – only to be defeated in a war that became knowns as Black September and deported to Lebanon, did he change his political strategy into a campaign to dispossess the Jews of their right to live in peace and security in Israel.
When Israel was persuaded to accept a solution to solve the Palestinian Arab problem and end the incessant terror campaign against Israeli citizens, Israel agreed to hand over parts of its sovereign territory in the cause of a mutual peace, Arafat was invited to shake the hand of Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, on the White House lawn watched by a smiling President Clinton.
The world relaxed as Arafat promised to deliver to Israelis “peace of the brave.” For this gesture he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. But, after allowing him to return to Ramallah, he gave us the peace of the grave.
Arafat killed more Jews after he received the Nobel Peace Prize than he did before.
They knew what he meant.
Way back, when Mohammed failed to conquer Mecca, envisioned by him as the seat of his new religion, he negotiated a deceptive ten-year peace deal with the Quraish tribe at the neutral oasis of Hudaibiyah. The Quraish were assisted by the Jewish Banu Qurayza tribe. The Quraish put their trust in him and went about their commerce and business, dropping their defenses in the process.
As years went by, Mohammad built up his forces and struck the unsuspecting Quraish and conquered Mecca. He celebrated his victory by having a trench cut. He gathered eight hundred Jewish men and boys, beheaded them, and took their wives and daughters as slaves for his men to do as they wished with them.
Echoes of Hamas on 7 October 2023.
Or was there intent to display a tradition of murder, torture, rape and humiliation of Jews that would shock the world and impress the Middle East?
Mahmoud Abbas, he who claims that Jews are defiling the Temple Mount with their filthy feet, he who decreed that any Arab selling land to Jews will be executed, he whose land must be Judenrein, he who incites and pays Arabs to murder Jews in his dastardly “Pay to Slay” reward scheme. Can anyone honestly suggest that this man, educated at a Moscow University in Holocaust denial, is not an antisemite?
The umbilical link is on the voice recording of a Hamas terrorist on an Israeli kibbutz on 7 October who excitedly called his parents to tell them, “I’m talking to you from a Jewish woman’s phone. I killed her and I killed her husband. I killed ten with my own hands! Dad! Ten, With my own hands. Ten! Their blood is on my hands.”.
He didn’t say “Israeli” in Arabic. He said “Jewish.” He proudly told his parents that he had killed ten Jews and received their blessings.
Is this the man that the US Administration really believes should be the leader and agency to replace Hamas in Gaza? Is that the best they can come up with?
And, as for you Americans, have you noticed that the ones marching on your streets screaming “Death to Jews!” “Gas the Jews!” Allah Akbar!” are the ones who also campaign for Palestine with the genocidal chant “From the River to the Sea,” a lethal slogan calling for the genocide of Jews?
Can anybody doubt that Arab Palestinism is not about the genocide of Jews?
Can anyone doubt that the threat of Arab Palestinism has not spread globally as it did in the days of al-Husseini, as we witness Jewish students barricading themselves in libraries on their campuses, or Jewish families living in fear behind bolted doors in the West?
That should have been a Jewish Lives Matter moment, but it wasn’t. American Jews don’t have the gumption that African Americans do.
He may have been the first fatal Jewish victim of Arab Palestinism in America, but he won’t be the last. There are antisemitic incidents every day in the “land of the free.”
One thing we Jews have learned throughout our history. It begins with words, but it never ends there.
God help us! Literally!
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excellent analysis, but not one suggestion to fix the situation. History tells us what has to happen to destroy an enemy and bring peace.
Excellent analysis by Barry Shaw.
Yes indeed. G-d gave this land to the Jewish people, and He must protect and defend them. This is an excellent article and I hope it will be widely read, especially by those who are pushing for the two-state solution.