Peloni: Here is the 6th installment of Joseph Shellim’s 12 Deceptions, an excerpt from his important work, “Philistine-To-Palestine”. We are posting one Deception each week, and here the links to the previous installments:
Deception 1: The Name Deception
Deception 2: The Balfour Deception
Deception 3: The White Paper Deception
Joseph Shellim
Are Palestinians Native to Palestine?
Can two opposing people claim a ‘time immemorial’ nativity in the same land? Yes, but not at the same time. To claim any such ancient nativity both party’s claims require evidencing, otherwise one is a deception. Here, even belief and majority rule is insufficient as both are open to error and corruption. A time immemorial premise can refer only to what evidential history says, and this can only be measured via validated writings and archaeological imprints or an empirical means other than belief.
Namely, it cannot be so because some are saying so without any imprints, nor can this presentation; an arms-length historical validation must apply. And such validation must ideally possess cross-references and multiple verifications of exemplary historical references when it is contradicted by another. Thereby, the ‘time immemorial’ claim must affirm either the Arabs or the Jews possessed an ancient sovereignty in this land.
For the Jews, their claim is of a habitation of some 4,000 years ago and a sovereignty rule 3,000 years ago. The references cited here are as exemplary; other similar references from numerous sources may be independently investigated. While the new generation may not be fully aware of these historical factors, there is no question all of their peers, Christians and the Arab peoples, including of their religious sectors, are fully aware of them. It is the reason this book uses the term ‘Deceptions’.
Circa 2,000 Years Ago. It is historically validated the Arab people called as Palestinians in the 20th Century were not the inhabitants or ruling force of Judea when Rome invaded and destroyed Jerusalem and its Temple 2,000 years ago. In the Roman war with the Jews, the Arabs are mentioned as mercenaries in the Roman legions; these were not citizens of Judea. It is seen in the archives of Roman historians like Tacitus and Josephus, and in the Gospels and the Quran that Judea, previously called as Israel, was the land of the Jews. Judea, the land of the Jews, was re-named as Palestine by the Romans in the second Century (135 AD/CE); this was not the land of the Arabs. [21]
Circa 2, 600 Years Ago. The Arab people were also not the inhabitants or ruling force of Judah (the pre-Latin name of Judea) when Babylon invaded and destroyed the Jerusalem Temple in the 6th Century BCE. There are no Arabs mentioned in these historical archives. [22] Circa 3,000 Years Ago.
The Arab people were not the inhabitants or ruling force of Israel, the land ruled by the Jews as a sovereign kingdom from 1002 BCE to 135 CE. Israel is the previous name of Judah, established by King David with Jerusalem as its capital; Canaan was the previous name of this land. There are no Arabs that are mentioned in these historical archives. [23]
Thereby, there are no recorded imprints of Arabs ruling this land from the Canaanite to the Roman invasion period. We have no recorded Arab kings, cities, wars, language or writings in this land 3,000 years ago, or 4,000 years ago, or throughout all recorded history, and thereby it negates the ‘time immemorial’ claim for this period of history as a deception. The original Philistines, who invaded and ruled in Gaza for a short period, were not Arabs, nor were the pre-Hebrew Canaanites an Arab people. Here, the Dead Sea Scrolls dated up to 408 BCE, with some portions 600 BCE; the Tel Dan discovery; and the first and second temple period discovery of relics, also act as aligning evidences this was the ‘land of the Jews’, not of the Arabs.
- “Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel extended over 1400 years. It was the Jews who first implanted their culture and customs of their permanent settlement” – (Ibn Khaldun, one of the most creditable Arab historians; 1377 c.e.)
- “The Jews lived in the Land of Israel for seventeen hundred years virtually uninterrupted until the Roman destruction of its national polity in AD 70. At this point, Israel’s population of over two and one-half million was abruptly decimated by massive slaughter and expulsion. But as late as AD 617,
Jews controlled Jerusalem and a large portion of the Land. After that time, even though Arabs conquered the land, they were only a minority. Then through the centuries of Christian Crusader rule and the Mameluke period, the Land was still dominated by Jewish culture and customs until AD 1400 even though the Arabs eventually became a small majority.” – (Bible Students Congregation of New Brunswick)
Roman War Proof.
Rome went to war with the Jews in the first century, destroying the Jerusalem Temple in the year 70 AD/CE. Rome changed the name of Judea to Palestine and expelled many of the Jews in the second century (135 AD/CE). That the Arabs were mercenaries recruited in the Roman legions and destroying the Jerusalem temple is validated by the archives of the Romans and the Greeks, as well as its corresponding archaeological discoveries. Namely, the Romans were engaged in a war with the Jews in their homeland of Judea in the first and second centuries; thereby this was thus not an Arab land. Israel was returned to her own land, not of an Arab land. There are no historical records of a civilization dating 7,000 years. Here, both the periods prior to 1002 BCE Israel (Canaan), and after the 2nd Century Roman conquest, should also be examined; the former to determine any imprints of Arabs or a Pre Arab people from time immemorial in Canaan prior to 4,000 years, the latter whether Arabs were the natives of Palestine since the Roman destruction of Judea 2,000 years ago. An examination of such a period fully covers the term ‘from time immemorial’.
Post Roman Palestine.
The Christians, not the Arabs, ruled Palestine after the Romans. The Jews, banned from Jerusalem under Christian rule that followed the Roman edict, were now inhabited in smaller numbers yet not fully displaced from the land. Seven centuries after the Roman war with the Jews, the emergent Islam invaded Palestine, but they did not rule Palestine before this time. [24] In 638 a church was destroyed by the invading Mohammedans and a mosque was erected in its place. [25] The Jews were inhabitants of Palestine under Islam and found relatively peaceful habitation and given their right of belief. The
Islamic invasion in the 7th Century says this was not the prior land of Islam or the Arabs in the first seven centuries after Rome destroyed the Jerusalem Temple:
- “In 638, Umar, the first Islamic Caliph, requested to be led to the Temple Mount, an acknowledgment of Islam’s acceptance of the Hebrew prophetic tradition. After reaching the Temple Mount, the caliph found himself disgusted on seeing the heaped garbage in the sacred enclosure that expressed Christian contempt for the Judaic faith. Umar ordered the area to be cleansed out of respect for the Jews, an act that also prepared the sacred Jewish site for Muslim worship” [26]
In 1099, the Crusaders stormed Jerusalem and re-established its new control; virtually all of the city’s Muslim and Jewish populations were butchered. [27]
The Ayyubid Period (1187-1516)
The invasive wars continued between the forces of Christianity and Islam and of their sub-groups throughout the following centuries. Palestine’s history witnessed the reigns of many invasions, including the 12th Century Saladin (Salah al-Din) who recaptured Jerusalem. This was followed by Saladin’s nephew al-Malik al Muazzam Isa; then by Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick II (1229-1244); the Turkish Khawarism conquest that exterminated the entire Christian population of Jerusalem of 7,000, except for 300 who survived by fleeing to Jaffa; then the further devastation by the Mongols. The emerging Turkish Mamluk’s war with the Mongols was so destructive that it left Jerusalem as a neglected, isolated and ravaged city. On the eve of the Ottoman conquest, the city numbered forty-four madrasas and twenty zawias. [28]
While the Islamic forces substantially diminished the Christian rule, two significant factors can be established:
- That although the major population of Jews were exiled throughout the nations in Arabia and across the Mediterranean seas (Europe), they always maintained a Jewish presence in Jerusalem and the surrounding cities consistently, including in Jerusalem, Megiddo, Hebron and Bethlehem.
- That none of the forces that battled over Jerusalem for 2,000 years were the ‘time immemorial’ people of this land; many of these invading forces were not natives of Palestine; and following the Islamic invasion of the 7th Century, these were not Arab, including the Crusaders, the Mongols and the Ottoman Turks.
We know of the Jewish continuous habitation by examining their status in Arabia, Palestine and Jerusalem under the final invasive empire of the region, one that was not Arab and prevailed for four centuries previous to World War One.
The Ottoman Period (1516-1917)
Prior to W.W.1 the Jews were prominent inhabitants of Palestine under the previous Ottoman Empire. It is a positive affirmation of the ‘time immemorial’ history of the Jews with this land’s historical records from the 9th Century, thereby negating that the Jews in Palestine as based on recent immigration from the Spanish Expulsion of the 15th Century. Although Spain’s expulsion did create an in-flow and expanded population, they returned to an already prevailing Jewish habitation in the Ottoman reign. The Jews prayed at the Jerusalem Temple site continuously throughout biblical times up to the Ottoman period; the last Islamic Sultan acknowledging Jerusalem as the ancient holy city of the Jews, not the Arabs, Christianity or Islam.
Jews of Jerusalem under the Ottoman Empire.
Ottoman Jews at the Western Wall – by Felix Bronfils, 1870.
Ottoman Period Jews.
The Jews are historically recorded in Palestine dating prior to the Ottoman rule, including in the Assyrian invasion (9th Century BCE); the Babylon invasion (6th Century BCE); the Greek invasion of Alexander the Great (300 BCE) under Ptolemy when the Hebrew Bible was first translated (the Septuagint Bible); and the Roman destruction and Christian rule up to the 7th Century AD/CE.
In the later Ottoman rule that began in 1516, the Jews were among the most entrenched and recognized people as the ‘Yehoudim’ (Jews) of the ‘Land of Yisrael.’ The Jews constituted most of the Ottoman Empire’s doctors, lawyers, accountants and writers, and developed many of their great institutions in Ottoman controlled Palestine.
This history says the Jews, not the Arabs, are this land’s inhabitants since the time predating the Assyrian invasion of the 9th Century BCE (3,400 years according to the Egyptian Amarna Letters); and the previous 400-year period prior to WW1; thereby that the Arabs are not its natives from time immemorial as is claimed; the evidence allocates such a premise solely to the Jews. Thus the Arabs cannot qualify as native refuges of Palestine:
- The Scroll of Ahimaaz, which predates Ottoman rule, is of a Hebrew family chronicle in rhymed prose written by Ahimaaz ben Paltiel (1017-c.60); the scroll bears the Hebrew title “Sefer Yuhasin” (‘Book of Genealogies’; Neubauer’s ed., pp. 111-113, 132, 133). The narrative’s text covers the 9th and 10th centuries when the author’s forebears were leaders of their communities and well-known poets. The scroll of Ahimaaz mentions the location of the Jewish Temple as a Jewish prayer site; it was sanctioned as such under the Ottoman rule. – (The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages).
- In Ottoman controlled Palestine, thirty Jewish communities existed in Haifa, Sh’chem, Hebron, Ramleh, Gaza, Jerusalem and many in the north, with Safed as a spiritual centre for esoteric Kabala study. The Sulchan Aruch, the most widely consulted ‘Code of Jewish Law’ ever written was authored in Safed by Yosef Karo in 1563. As well, many Kabbalistic texts were developed in Safed. – (Codex Judaica, Mattis Kantor 2005; History of the Jews in the Ottoman Empire.)
- Compared with other Ottoman subjects, they (the Jews) were the predominant power in commerce and trade as well in diplomacy and other high offices. In the 16th century especially, the Jews rose to prominence under the millets, the apogee of Jewish influence could arguably be the appointment of Joseph Nasi to Sanjak-bey (governor, a rank usually only bestowed upon Muslims) of the island of Naxos. – (Charles Issawi & Dmitri Gondicas; Ottoman Greeks in the Age of Nationalism, Princeton, (1999)
- The first Jewish synagogue linked to Ottoman rule is Etz ha-Hayyim (?? ????? ;Lit. Tree of Life) in Bursa which passed to Ottoman authority in 1324. The synagogue is still in use, although the modern Jewish population of Bursa has shrunk to about 140 people. – (International Jewish Cemetery Project; Turkey).
- It would not be difficult to put together the names of a very sizeable number of Jewish subjects or citizens who have attained to high rank, to power, to great financial influence, to significant and recognized intellectual attainment – (G.E. Von Grunebaum, “Eastern Jewry Under Islam, 1971, page 369.)
Left: Jewish Ottoman Doctor (1558 Woodcut, Nicolay de Nicolay; p.185); Right: Ottoman Jew, Paining 1675.
- “Most of the physicians were Jews, including court physicians such as Hakim Yakoub, Joseph and Moshe Hamon, Daniel Fonseka and Gabriel Buenauentura, to name only a few. One of the most significant innovations the Jews brought to the Ottomans was the printing press.” Sulaiman the Magnificent (1520-66), like his predecessor Salim I., had a Jewish body-physician, Moses Hamon II., who accompanied his royal master on his campaigns. – (Life of Ottoman Jewry, Jewish World Libr.)
- “The Jews offered Hebrew prayers for success during battles with the presence of the Ottoman Prime Minister in synagogues” (London Illustrated News, 9-6-1877).
- The Jewish population in Jerusalem increased from 70 families to 1,500 at the beginning of the 16th century. That of Safed increased from 300 to 2,000 families and almost surpassed Jerusalem in importance. – (Ottoman Jews; Wiki)
- Suleiman the Magnificent was the Caliph of Islam and the tenth and longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1520 to his death in 1566; he fully acknowledged and endorsed Jewish nativity of Palestine. In 1560, Suleiman gave the Jews official permission of the right to pray at their Jewish Temple site.” – (Western Wall Heritage Foundation, Retrieved Dec 16, 2007, Online Libr; The Kotel Org.)
- “Jews have lived in Turkey from very early times. There was a colony of them in Thessaly at the time of Alexander the Great; and later they are found scattered throughout the eastern Roman Empire.” – (Adrianople; Byzantine Empire)
- “The earliest records of Jews in Turkey date back to 220 B.C.E. Turkish Jewry reached its population zenith — 200,000 members — on the eve of World War I.” – (The Society for Research on Jewish Communities.)
- “The troubled history of Turkey (previously Ottoman Empire) during the 20th century and the process of transforming the old Ottoman Empire into a nationalist Islamic nation state after 1923, however, had a negative effect on the size of all remaining minorities, including the Jews.” – (Turkey; Wiki).
- “The Land still was permeated with Jewish culture and customs. In AD 1400, there was still no evidence of Palestinian roots (Arab Palestinians) or established culture.” – (Arab historian Khaldun, called one of the greatest historians of all time by Arnold Toynbee)
- Ottoman Palestine was not Arab: “At its core, the Ottoman Empire was a multi-ethnic state. The ruling family was Turkish, but the population was made up of Turks, Kurds, Greeks, Armenians, Bosnians, Serbians, Persians, Arabs, and others. A wide range of nationalist beliefs existed, but it is safe to say that those (of the entire Middle East) advocating for a complete break from Ottoman history and the establishment of ethnic nation-states were a small minority.” – (Ottoman History, Palestine.)
Was Palestine the homeland of Palestinians?
There was never an Arab country called as Palestine, or an Arab Palestinian people prior to the 1960s when this name was usurped from the Jews. The name Palestine did not belong to Arabs; it was applied to Judea, then resurrected in the 20th Century by Britain. Both Palestine and Palestinian were names referred exclusively to the Jews and their historical homeland in Britain’s official and legal documentation, and utilized as the counter to the Arab people.
According to Joan Peter’s critically acclaimed book (“From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine”), a large portion of the Arabs of Palestine were not natives of Palestine at the time of the formation of Israel in 1948, but had arrived in waves of immigration starting in the 19th century and continuing through the period of the British Mandate. Namely, there were never a native Arab Palestinian peoples in this land from time immemorial, nor a substantial number relative to the Jews throughout this recorded history.
Thereby, the Arab time-immemorial nativity claims in Canaan, Israel and Palestine is false and un historical. The denial of the Jewish nativity is also false and un-historical. That these are deceptions and un-historical is also evidenced by the lack of any Arab institutions or native habitation by the term Palestinian; the nativity premise in Palestine is not seen by any other people than the Jews. Joan Peter’s findings are also affirmed by an array of prominent historians, writers, theologians and numerous Arab scholars; the late Peters became subject to much vilifications for her historical portrayal of this history, one that began as a support of the Arabs, but that turned altogether after her ten-year examination of Palestine’s history.
A mission of the U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy also affirms the same; his first-hand reporting of this history will allegedly cost him his life by an assassination.
“Bobby” Kennedy, Israel, 1948.
- “Over 500,000 Arabs in the 12 years between 1932 and 1944 came into Palestine to take advantage of living conditions existing in no other Arab state. This is the only country in the Near and Middle East where an Arab middle class is in existence” – (Robert Francis “Bobby” Kennedy, June 3, 1948; Boston Post). Robert Kennedy also wrote, “We must deal with the causes of the conflict by ensuring a permanent and enforceable guarantee of Israel’s right to live secure from invasion, and free passage for ships of all nations through the Gulf of Aqaba and the Suez Canal…” [Robert Kennedy Supports Israel, RAAB Collection].
A Barren Swamp-Land.
The previous centuries affirm this land’s population status in the Ottoman period as possessing a dynamic Jewish population. However, far from being a land of many other displaced peoples, Palestine was accounted by prominent Historical figures as one of the least populated regions of the world prior to the Jews returning, affirming that the Arab people arrived later. The historical imprints affirm that the Arabs called as Palestinians in the 21st Century are recent 18th Century onward immigrants and not of a past population of Palestine:
- “Nothing there is to be seen but a little of the old walls, which is yet remaining and all the rest is grass, moss and weeds much like to a piece of rank or moist ground.” – (Gunner Edward Webbe, Palestine Exploration Fund, Quarterly Statement, p. 86; de Haas, History, p. 338)
- “Palestine is a ruined and desolate land.” – (Count Constantine François Volney, 18th century French author and historian)
- “The land in Palestine is lacking in people to till its fertile soil.” – (British archaeologist Thomas Shaw, mid-1700s)
- “There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent (valley of Jezreel, Galilea); not for thirty miles in either direction. One may ride ten miles hereabouts and not see ten human beings. Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes… desolate and unlovely.” – (“The Innocents Abroad”, by Mark Twain, 1867).
Modern scholars of this history also reject the premise of Arab Palestinians as natives of Palestine:
- “The fact is that today’s Palestinians are immigrants from the surrounding nations! I grew up well knowing the history and origins of today’s Palestinians as being from Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Christians from Greece, Muslim Sherkas from Russia and Muslims from Bosnia.” – (Joseph Farah, “Myths of the Middle East”)
- “The Arabs themselves, who are its inhabitants, cannot be considered but temporary residents. They pitched their tents in its grazing fields or built their places of refuge in its ruined cities. They created nothing in it. Since they were strangers to the land, they never became its masters. The desert wind that brought them hither could one day carry them away without their leaving behind them any sign of their passage through it. With slight exceptions they are probably all descendants of the old inhabitants of Syria.” – (Stephen Olin, D.D., L.L.D., called one of the most noted of American theologians after his extensive travels in the Middle East wrote of the Arabs in Palestine.)
- “It is not true that there were “Palestinians” living in Israel since ancient times only to be displaced by European Jews in the 20th century. The Jews have an ancient claim to the land.” – (Courtesy The Bob Siegel Radio Show Quote.)
Historical Census Accounts.
Five centuries of Palestine were described as deficient of any natural resources, including water for irrigation, forsaken and neglected by the previous Ottoman Empire. Chiefly, it was not the land of the Arabs or an Arab populated region or country; the last ruling reign of Palestine for 400 years was the Ottomans (A Turkish people), itself an invading force and not an Arab people.
The historical archives of Palestine say Jerusalem’s population was predominately and overwhelmingly of Jews and Christians even when ruled by the Ottomans and that Palestine was left barren and un-catered for centuries prior to the Jews who alone developed this land; that the Jews began development of the land when news of a return consideration began to surface via early American Presidents and Herzl’s endeavors. Such is accounted by historical imprints seen in the17th and 18th Century census accounts under the Ottomans. The Arab populations were substantially located in the Middle-East outside of Palestine, but yet under Ottoman rule. Much suppressed archives have now emerged that deny two fundamental factors; namely of any historical Arab Palestinian Native claims to this land, and the UN’s adopted Historical population claims, as is seen in historical census reports of the Ottoman period:
17th Century Population Census Survey
Historical Book of Muslim Census in Palestine.
[Titled “Palestina” (Original Latin name Palaestine by Hadriani Relandi — its original professional name Palaestina, ex monumentis veteribus illustrata, published by Trajecti Batavorum: Ex Libraria G. Brodelet, 1714, scholar, geographer, cartographer and well known philologist, spoke perfect Hebrew, Arabic and ancient Greek].
In 1695, the cartographer Relandi was sent on a sightseeing geographical tour to Israel, the land at that time known as Palestina. He first mapped this historically known land’s geography, then he arranged a population survey and census of each community. These are his most prominent conclusions:
- Not one settlement in the Land of Israel has a name that is of Arabic origin. Ramallah, for instance, was called Bet’allah (From the Hebrew name Beit El) and Hebron was called Hebron (Hevron/Hebrew name).
- Most of the land was empty and desolate. Most of the land was empty, desolate, and the inhabitants few in number and mostly concentrate in the towns Jerusalem, Acco, Tzfat, Jaffa, Tiberius and Gaza. Most of the inhabitants were Jews and the rest Christians. There were few Muslims, mostly nomad Bedouins. Nablus, known as Shechem (Hebrew name), was exceptional, where approximately 120 people, members of the Muslim Natsha family and approximately 70 Shomronites, lived. In the Galilee capital, Nazareth, lived approximately 700 Christians and in Jerusalem approximately 5000 people, mostly Jews and some Christians. The Muslims were as nomad Bedouins who arrived in the area as construction and agriculture labor reinforcement and as seasonal workers.
- No Palestinian heritage or Palestinian nation. The book totally contradicts any post-modern theory claiming a “Palestinian heritage,” or Palestinian nation. The book strengthens the connection, relevance, pertinence, kinship of the Land of Israel to the Jews and the absolute lack of belonging to the Arabs; no names of towns, no culture, no art, no history, and no evidence of Arabic rule; only huge robbery, pillaging and looting; stealing the Jews’ holiest place, robbing the Jews of their Promised Land. – [English translation courtesy of Nurit Greenger. “Adrian Reland (1676-1718), Dutch Orientalist, was born at Ryp, studied at Utrecht and Leiden, and was professor of Oriental languages successively at Harderwijk (1699) and Utrecht (1701). His most important works were Palaestina ex monumentis veteribus illustrata (Utrecht, 1714), and Antiquitates sacrae veterum Hebraeorum.”]
Arab Status in Palestine.
There is no issue that two people cannot be the inhabitants and ruling force in the same land at the same time. That one such claim is incorrect is validated by historical imprints. Scholars that are of high merit also agree one claim is false.
- “Historians and archaeologists have generally concluded that most, if not all, modern Palestinians are probably more closely related to the Arabs of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Jordan, and other countries than they are to the ancient Jebusites, Canaanites, or Philistines.” – (The American archaeologist Eric Cline in his book ‘Jerusalem Besieged’)
- “In ‘From Time Immemorial’, Joan exposed the fraud at the heart of the Palestinian national narrative — the claim of indigenous status in the land of Israel. As Joan showed, most of those who now refer to themselves as Palestinians were migrants from surrounding Arab lands who came to Israel as economic migrants beginning in the mid-19th century, and mainly during the period of the British Mandate in the land of Israel. That is, they came the same time the Jews did.” – [Caroline Glick; Journalist, writer,
Senior Fellow for Middle East Affairs of the Washington DC based Centre for Security Policy.]
Thereby, there appears no other description of the term ‘deception’ applying to the term ‘Time Immemorial’ of an Arab nativity in the land of Israel. There are no imprints of it in the historical thread; it accounts the usurping and transfer of the name Palestinian, and the changing of a parcel of land dotted with ancient Jewish sacred sites that was illegally altered to ‘West Bank’. While such historical name manipulations are promoted by Britain who was in the controlling forefront of this region, no credible reasoning allows that the facts were not realized or known this was the exclusively held land of the Jews, both historically and legally via treaties and via the UN. These name deceptions numerously appear as a result of manipulations to overturn world history and the 20th Century legal agreements to achieve contradictive agendas and commercial interests. Thereby there is also a direct alignment of appeasement seen in the absence of any conditions placed on the regimes created by Britain; such machinations have fueled the loss of human rights for the Arab peoples ruled by lawlessness and inculcated with displacement teachings, harsh propaganda and a lacking of worldly knowledge. Yet this was a war stratagem of ‘Leave the people fighting’ by Britain who ultimately cannot be viewed a friend of the Arabs; it fuelled conflicts both within the Arab groups and with the Jews.
Britain’s Fictional Borders.
The underlying strategy of creating borders antithetical to the region’s sub-groups affected the Arabs more than any other sector. This was processed while Britain was servicing of every facility for the regimes she created, not the Arab peoples. An inevitable rage incurred by restrictions and hopelessness developed that extended elsewhere, a phenomenon that is already being witnessed globally by mass immigrations from the choicest lands with the greatest resources. Britain’s devices included name transfers, treaty corruptions, propaganda and the exploiting of theological factors by appointing figures like Hajj Amin and encouraging mass immigration in Palestine while barring the Jews from returning. The Jews became Britain’s expendable fall guy. With her excellent war-time investigative abilities and knowledge of the Arab groups and its geography, none would know more than Britain the Arabs claiming a nativity in Palestine was false, as stated by Churchill and other British Ministers. The Arabs were encouraged by Britain into the land allocated for the Jews; no passports or identification was required. Britain’s actions are also exposed by those Arabs from the heart-line of Palestine.
- “As I lived in Palestine, everyone I knew could trace their heritage back to the original country their great grandparents came from. Today’s Palestinians are immigrants from the surrounding nations! I grew up well knowing the history and origins of today’s Palestinians as being from Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Christians from Greece, Muslim Sherkas from Russia, Muslims from Bosnia, and the Jordanians next door. My grandfather, who was a dignitary in Bethlehem, almost lost his life by Abdul Qader Al-Husseni (the leader of the Palestinian revolution) after being accused of selling land to Jews. He used to tell us that his village Beit Sahur (The Shepherds Fields) in Bethlehem County was empty before his father settled in the area with six other families. The town has now grown to 30,000 inhabitants.”- (Walid, a Palestinian Arab defector, quoted from “Answering Islam”)
Episode 7. The Refugee Deception
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