What really took place prior to the world adopting “a sympathy for those poor Arabs who were displaced, chased out of their homes, and turned into refugees” by the ruthless Israelis?
This from wndnewscenter.org.
CORRECTION: The Jews in Israel took no one’s land. Not so-called “Palestinians,” not so-called “Gazans,” not any of the so-called “Hamas” butchers.
When Mark Twain visited the Holy Land in the 19th century, he was greatly disappointed. He didn’t see any people. He referred to it as a vast wasteland. The land we now know as Israel was practically deserted.
By the beginning of the 20th century, that began to change.
Jews from all over the world began to return to their ancestral homeland—the Promised Land Moses and Joshua had conquered millennia earlier, Christians and Jews believe, on the direct orders of God.
That’s not to say there wasn’t always a strong Jewish presence in the land—particularly in and around Jerusalem. In 1854, according to a report in the New York Tribune:
Jews constituted two-thirds of the population of that holy city. The source for that statistic? A journalist on assignment in the Middle East that year for the Tribune. His name was Karl Marx. Yes, that Karl Marx.
And who would doubt the veracity of a true Marxist?
A travel guide to the Middle East, published in 1906 by Karl Baedeker, illustrated the fact that, even when the Islamic Ottoman Empire ruled the region:
[The moslem] population in Jerusalem was minimal. The book estimate[d] the total population of the city at 60,000, of whom 7,000 were [moslems], 13,000 were Christians and 40,000 were Jews.
Further noted:
The number of Jews has greatly risen in the last few decades, in spite of the fact that they are forbidden to immigrate or to possess landed property.
NOTE: Despite Jews being persecuted, they came to Jerusalem and represented the overwhelming majority of the population as early as 1906. And despite moslems today claiming Jerusalem is the third-holiest site in Islam, when the city was under Islamic rule, they had little interest in it.
As the Jews came, drained the swamps and made the deserts bloom, something interesting began to happen. Arabs followed. They had good reason to come. They came for jobs. They came for prosperity. They came for freedom. And they came in large numbers.
Winston Churchill observed in 1939:
So far from being persecuted, the Arabs have crowded into the country and multiplied till their population has increased more than even all world Jewry could lift up the Jewish population.
Then came 1948 and the great partition:
The United Nations proposed the creation of two states in the region—one Jewish, one Arab. The Jews accepted it gratefully. The Arabs rejected it with a vengeance and declared war.
Arab leaders urged Arabs to leave the area so they would not be caught in the crossfire. They could return to their homes, they were told, after Israel was crushed and the Jews destroyed. It didn’t work out that way. By most counts, several hundred thousand Arabs were displaced by this war:
[N]ot by Israeli aggression, not by some Jewish
real-estate grab, not by Israeli expansionism.
In fact, there are many historical records showing the Jews urged the Arabs to stay and live with them in peace. But, tragically, they chose to leave.
And now, many decades later, the sons and daughters and grandsons and granddaughters of those refugees are all-too-often still living in refugee camps:
[N]ot because of Israeli intransigence,
but because they are misused
as a political tool of the Arab powers.
Those poor unfortunates could be settled in a week by the rich Arab oil states that control 99.9% of the Middle East landmass, but they are kept as virtual prisoners, filled with misplaced hatred for Jews and armed as suicide martyrs by the Arab power brokers.
This is the real modern history of the Arab-Israeli conflict:
– At no time did the Jews uproot Arab families from their homes,
– When there were title deeds to be purchased, Jews bought them at inflated prices, and
– When there were not, they worked the land so they could have a place to live without the persecution they faced throughout the world.
The great big lie of the Middle East is that the Israelis displaced anyone—one of a series of lies and myths that have the world on the verge of committing yet another great injustice to the Jews.
But still the lies and misinformation continue.
