By
New in PJ Media:
In yet another indication of his distaste for America’s most loyal and reliable ally in the Middle East, Old Joe Biden was spotted carrying one of the foremost books of pro-jihad propaganda against Israel available today. The lame duck limped into a bookstore in Nantucket on Black Friday and came out carrying Rashid Khalidi’s anti-Israel screed, “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017.” Not, you’ll notice, “The Case for Israel” or “The Palestinian Delusion.” Old Joe’s sympathies are once again quite clear.
What a president reads can be revealing. Back during Obama’s first campaign for the presidency in 2008, a wire service photo captured him crossing an airplane tarmac holding Zakaria’s book, “The Post-American World.” Obama was holding his place in the book with his finger as if he didn’t dare put it down and lose his place. His interest in the book doesn’t appear to have been incidental; it may have given him the overarching goals for his entire presidency, the betrayal of America. Old Joe’s choice of Rashid Khalidi for recreational reading during one of his interminable vacations likewise shines a light on one of the main recurring themes of his administration: the betrayal of Israel.
The New York Post reported Friday that at Nantucket Bookworks, the senescent corruptocrat “surprised onlookers by picking up a copy of a book describing the establishment of Israel as ‘colonialism’ that’s been met with Palestinian ‘resistance.’” They may have been surprised that the ostensible president, whose dementia has been a matter of international concern for four years now, was picking up a book at all: he reads?
Biden’s choice of reading material, however, was indeed a source of genuine concern as well. Israel is guilty of “colonialism” that led to Palestinian “resistance”? Think about that for a minute. On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas jihadis stormed into Israel from Gaza and murdered 1,200 Israelis. What were those Israelis doing? Were they busy colonizing Gaza? No. There hadn’t been a single Israeli in Gaza since 2005 when the Israeli government uprooted 21 settlements in Gaza and forced the Israelis who were living in them to move back into Israel.
That’s an extremely odd sort of “colonialism,” to withdraw from a territory and leave it to its own devices while supplying it with water and electricity even as its residents regularly lobbed rockets at those supplying these necessities. And it’s likewise a strange “resistance” to murder young people who were at a music festival, and among whom many, if not most, deeply desired to live in peace with the Palestinians.
There is more. Read the rest here.
Rashid Khalidi’s older relative Walid Khalidi, active as an author in the 1950s and early sixties, is the author of three “classic” articles of what I call propaganda scholarship, or scholarly propaganda, that “proved” that the Israel Defense Forces had been guilty of unprovoked attacks on innocent, unarmed Palestinians during the 1948-49 Arab-Israel war, in order to ethnically cleanse Palestine of Arabs. Walid accomplished this feat by descibing IIsrael’s military offensives during the war, which were sometimes accompanied by the flight of Arabs from the advancing Arab forces–while at the same time, omitting any references to the offrensive operations by the Palestinian guerillas and the five invading Arab armies, directed at Jewish civilians or soldiers, the seige of the Jewish quarters of Jerusalm that reduced the Jewish residents to the edge of starvation, the massacres of Jewish civilians by the Palestinian guerillas, etc. the deaths He barely acknowledges the presense of any Arab military forces in Palestine during the war. His very few references to them claimed they were only there to defend innocent Arab civilians from the Zionist Juggernaut. By this systematically selective narrative of Israeli military operations, he was able to make the Israelis look like the agressors in the war, and to claim that the Israeli military’s objectives was the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, rather than its actual objective, which was to defend the Jewish population and their newly declared state from destruction and genocide by the Arab attackers. (ors)In reality, the Palestinian Arab leadership openly proclaimed that their objective was genocide–the complete extermination of their Jewish neighbors.
I am not certain about the exact nature of the relationship between Walid and Rashid Khalidi’ I think that Walid is the great-uncle or greaat-great unle of Rashid–something like that. And these two are only two of the Khalidis who have been active propagandists for the Palestinian cause.