Arabs in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza Scrambling to Create a History

Observations of 'Adrian Reland' of Palestine in 1695

Taken from Robert Spencer's Original Article, Israel's Voice 

Adrian Reland's 3 most prominent conclusions in 1695 from his book 'Palestina', published by Trajecti Batavorum: Ex Libraria G. Brodelet, 1714

1. Not one settlement in the Land of Israel has a name that is of Arabic origin. Most of the settlement names originate in the Hebrew, Greek, Latin or Roman languages. In fact, till today, except to Ramlah, not one Arabic settlement has an original Arabic name. Till today, most of the settlements names are of Hebrew or Greek origin, the names distorted to senseless Arabic names. There is no meaning in Arabic to names such as Acco (Acre), Haifa, Jaffa, Nablus, Gaza, or Jenin and towns named Ramallah, El Halil and El-Kuds (Jerusalem) lack historical roots or Arabic philology. In 1696, the year Relandi toured the land, Ramallah, for instance, was called Bet’allah (From the Hebrew name Beit El) ...

2. Most of the land was empty, 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 Shchem, 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 interesting part was that Relandi mentioned the Muslims as nomad Bedouins who arrived in the area as construction and agriculture labor reinforcement, seasonal workers.

In Gaza for example, lived approximately 550 people, fifty percent Jews and the rest mostly Christians. The Jews grew and worked in their flourishing vineyards, olive tree orchards and wheat fields (remember Gush Katif?) and the Christians worked in commerce and transportation of produce and goods. Tiberius and Tzfat were mostly Jewish and except of mentioning fishermen fishing in Lake Kinneret — the Lake of Galilee — a traditional Tiberius occupation, there is no mention of their occupations. A town like Um el-Phahem was a village where ten families, approximately fifty people in total, all Christian, lived and there was also a small Maronite church in the village (The Shehadah family).

3. No Palestinian heritage or Palestinian nation.
Adrian Reland's  book 'Palestina' 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, who robbed the Latin name Palestina and took it as their own.
In Granada, Spain, for example, one can see Arabic heritage and architecture. In large cities such as Granada and the land of Andalucía, mountains and rivers like Guadalajara, one can see genuine Arabic cultural heritage: literature, monumental creations, engineering, medicine, etc. Seven hundred years of Arabic reign left in Spain an Arabic heritage that one cannot ignore, hide or camouflage. But here, in Israel there is nothing like that! Nada, as the Spanish say! 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. Lately, under the auspices of all kind of post modern Israelis — also hijacking and robbing us of our Jewish history.

PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein said this in 1977:
The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct “Palestinian people” to oppose Zionism.
For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.

Relevant Post:  Quotes Arab Leaders Wish Could Be Erased From History

Muslim Terror Has Nothing to do With So-Called "Occupation"

"Jewish Settlerments in 'Westbank' are the reason for Arab aggression"

"Muslims become extremist terrorists because of anguish and hopelessness"

~~ NONSENSE ~~

Arabs Muslims have been killing Jews and Christians since the 7th century A.D. 

Muslims' reasons for this have been:

1) Jews and Christians are not Muslims

2) Jews and Christians build cities which Muslims covet -  Muslims do not build.

3) Jews and Christians have wives that Muslims covet

 That's it. 

With the rise of ISIS and mass migration of Muslims from their failed countries to Europe and America, Westerners are learning first-hand what Christians and Jews in Muslim lands have had to live with -  have had to survive with for the last 1400 years.

Perhaps now Westerners can finally perceive with whom they are forcing Israel to deal with. Perhaps Westerners can now understand that dealing with Muslims can only end up with the suicide of a nation. 

The Real "Nabka" of 1948

While the fabricated Arab narrative has created an illusion that Jerusalem is a Muslim city
Records from as early as 1844 show that Jerusalem had a clear Jewish majority.

Until the 1850's the entirety of Jerusalem was situated within the walls of the Old City (today part of East Jerusalem). That was Jerusalem as it had been for thousands of years, within the wall, confined to an area of approximately one square mile. Until then the land around Jerusalem was barren.

In 1855 "Sir Moshe Montefiore" purchased land opposite Zion Gate, from "Ahmad Agha Fadhelaldin Agha Al-Asali Duzdar" the 'Ottoman Governor of Jerusalem,' for the purpose of building the first ever residential neighborhood outside of the ancient walls of Jerusalem. By 1860 this first Jewish neighborhood was complete including a windmill for grinding grains. 

Ottoman and British records from as early as the first half of the 19th century, provide unequivocal confirmation that the Jews comprised the majority of Jerusalem's inhabitants, both within and outside the walls, while, in the 1948 War of Independence Jordan ethnically cleansed the Old City by murdering and expelling the majority population - the ancient community of the Jews. This expulsion lasted only 19 years until the 1967 Six Day War when Israel retook the Old City, reuniting it with the rest of Jerusalem.

Photo via @jacquescohen9

Relevant Links: 
Whose Jerusalem? 2 YouTube(2 min)   
Whose Jerusalem? 1 YouTube(1.5 min)
Who are the Palestinians? An Arab Invention

Is Jordan Palestine? by Daniel Pipes and Adam Garfinkle

 
 

Quotes Arab Leaders Wish Could Be Erased From History

Here Are Some Quotes That’ll Make You Blink

1) Throughout his authorised biography (Alan Hart, Arafat: terrorist or peace maker) Arafat asserts at least a dozen times: “The Palestinian people have no national identity. I, Yasser Arafat, man of destiny, will give them that identity through conflict with Israel.” ~Yasser Arafat~
 
2) “Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all out war, a war which will last for generations. ~ Yasser Arafat ~

3) “The land in Palestine is lacking in people to till its fertile soil”. ~ British archaeologist Thomas Shaw, mid-1700s ~

4) “Who can challenge the rights of the Jews to Palestine? Good Lord, historically, it is really your country.” ~ Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, Mayor of Jerusalem, in 1899. ~

5) “The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel. For our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of Palestinian people, since Arab national interest demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism”. ~ Zahir Muhse’in, Member PLO Executive and the hoax of “Palestinian” identity – March 31, 1977 interview with the Amsterdam-based newspaper “Dagblad de Verdieping Trouw” ~

6) “We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. . . . We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.” ~ Yasser Arafat ~

7) “We Arabs, especially the educated among us, look with deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement…. We will wish the Jews a hearty welcome home… our two movements compliment one another.” ~ Emir Faisal, a leader of the Arab world, in 1919. ~

8) “There is no such country as Palestine. ‘Palestine’ is a term the Zionists invented. There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria. ‘Palestine’ is alien to us. It is the Zionists who introduced it”. ~ Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, Syrian Arab leader to British Peel Commission, 1937 ~

9) “There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not”. ~ Professor Philip Hitti, Arab historian, 1946 ~

10) “It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but Southern Syria”. ~ Representative of Saudi Arabia at the United Nations, 1956  ~

11) Concerning the Holy Land, the chairman of the Syrian Delegation at the Paris Peace Conference in February 1919 stated: “The only Arab domination since the Conquest in 635 c.e. hardly lasted, as such, 22 years”.

12) ” There is no Palestinian nation! There is an Arab nation, but no Palestinian nation. This was invented by the colonial powers. When are the Palestinians mentioned in history? Never.” ~ Azmi Bishara, former Arab Knesset member, on Israel television. ~

13) “The country is in a considerable degree empty of inhabitants and therefore its greatest need is of a body of population”. ~James Finn, British Consul in 1857 ~ 

14) “Palestine is a ruined and desolate land”. ~ Count Constantine François Volney, XVIII century French author and historian ~

15) “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. For the sort of solitude to make one dreary, come to Galilee… Nazareth is forlorn… Jericho lies a mouldering ruin… Bethlehem and Bethany, in their poverty and humiliation… untenanted by any living creature… A desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds… a silent, mournful expanse… a desolation… We never saw a human being on the whole route… Hardly a tree or shrub anywhere. Even the olive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil had almost deserted the country… Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes… desolate and unlovely…”. ~ Mark Twain, “The Innocents Abroad”, 1867 ~

16) “In 1590 a ‘simple English visitor’ to Jerusalem wrote: ‘Nothing there is to bescene (sic) but a little of the old walls, which is yet remayning(sic)  and all the rest is grasse (sic), mosse (sic)  and weedes (sic)  much like to a piece of rank or moist grounde’. ” (sic). ~ Gunner Edward Webbe, Palestine Exploration Fund, Quarterly Statement, p. 86; de Haas, History, p. 338 ~

17) “The Arabs themselves 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”. ~ Comments by Christians concerning the Arabs in Palestine in the 1800s ~
  
 18) “The area was underpopulated (sic) and remained economically stagnant until the arrival of the first Zionist pioneers in the 1880′s, who came to rebuild the Jewish land. The country had remained “The Holy Land” in the religious and historic consciousness of mankind, which associated it with the Bible and the history of the Jewish people. Jewish development of the country also attracted large numbers of other immigrants – both Jewish and Arab. The road leading from Gaza to the north was only a summer track suitable for transport by camels and carts… Houses were all of mud. No windows were anywhere to be seen… The plows used were of wood… The yields were very poor… The sanitary conditions in the village [Yabna] were horrible… Schools did not exist… The rate of infant mortality was very high… The western part, toward the sea, was almost a desert… The villages in this area were few and thinly populated. Many ruins of villages were scattered over the area, as owing to the prevalence of malaria, many villages were deserted by their inhabitants”. ~ The report of the British Royal Commission, 1913 ~

19) “Then we entered the hill district, and our path lay through the clattering bed of an ancient stream, whose brawling waters have rolled away into the past, along with the fierce and turbulent race who once inhabited these savage hills. There may have been cultivation here two thousand years ago. The mountains, or huge stony mounds environing this rough path, have level ridges all the way up to their summits; on these parallel ledges there is still some verdure and soil: when water flowed here, and the country was thronged with that extraordinary population, which, according to the Sacred Histories, was crowded into the region, these mountain steps may have been gardens and vineyards, such as we see now thriving along the hills of the Rhine. Now the district is quite deserted, and you ride among what seem to be so many petrified waterfalls. We saw no animals moving among the stony brakes; scarcely even a dozen little birds in the whole course of the ride”. ~William Thackeray in “From Jaffa To Jerusalem”, 1844 ~

Arab Boycott of Palestine 1945

A New York Times article from 1945 reporting the Arab call to boycott Palestine. This is yet another document portraying the Arabs' own reference to the Arabs of Palestine as -  Arabs. This is because they, as well as the rest of the world knew and referred to the Jews as Palestinians - as had been the case since 135 A.D.

 

Relevant Video Clip: Who are the Palestinians? An Arab Invention. CBN.