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.

Mudar Zahran: We Have a Palestinian State in Jordan

by Ryan Mauro Fri, April 18, 2014,
via @PaulConroy

 Palestinian-Jordanian opposition leader Mudar Zahran spoke to Clarion Project's Ryan Mauro about Palestinian opposition to Hamas.

Mudar Zahran

 Mauro: What’s a more long-term solution to the conflict? An independent Palestinian state? What would Palestinians accept as a solution?
Zahran: This is all a wakeup call that no other solutions exist besides a Jewish Israel and a Palestinian Jordan with the Jordan River in between.

The Jordanian citizenship law states that all non-Jewish Palestinians are natural-born Jordanians, so those Gazans are Jordanians. If the king was willing to let them in, they wouldn’t be under the bombings now.

We need a Palestinian state and we already have one in Jordan. The problem is that King Abdullah refuses to recognize that. I have been warning for years that unless the world tolerates a Palestinian state in Jordan, more trouble was ahead and I believe my words ring true now.

Mudar Zahran is a prominent Palestinian-Jordanian opposition leader that supports secular democracy and peace with Israel. In his new appearance on Hannity, Zahran spoke about Palestinians turning against Hamas (see below).
His parents were born in Jerusalem and moved to Jordan during the Hashemite occupation of the disputed territories west of the Jordan River (commonly referred to as the West Bank by Palestinians and Judea & Samaria by Israelis). His family is one of the most influential within Jordan’s Palestinian majority. 
An entire part of Amman is officially named “Zahran Area” in their honor. Before being forced into exile in the United Kingdom, Zahran was serving as the Economic Specialist and Assistant Policy Coordinator at the U.S. Embassy in Amman. He also served the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. During his work with the U.S. Embassy, Zahran covered sensitive matters regarding Jordan, reporting to two U.S. Ambassadors. His reports were forwarded to the U.S. State Department, CIA, Department of Homeland Security, Treasury Department and, occasionally, to the FBI. He was a civil rights activist in Jordan and stood against the Jordanian government’s discriminatory policies towards Palestinians. He fled Jordan in 2010 and is a regular commentator for Middle Eastern media outlets. Zahran envisions a future Jordan that is an “armless welfare state that secures the rights of Jordanians from all heritages and origins and maintains the peace agreement with Israel.” He has previously written for the Clarion Prject on the Palestinian Authority. The following is Mudar Zahran’s interview with Clarion Project National Security Analyst Ryan Mauro: 

 For full article click here: Mudar Zahran: We Have a Palestinian State in Jordan

U.S. Congressional Record 1922

House Joint Resolution 322

In 1922 England severed 78% of historical Palestine (133 A.D. - 1922) and used it to create an Arab country for the Arab population of Palestine. It was called Trans-Jordan. The remaining 22% was set aside as a country for the Jews (originally the entire area of Palestine was intended for the Jews but politics and alliances during and after WW1 changed the international agenda). The division of Palestine was in the spirit of the division of all the Middle East and North African land mass after WW1, a land mass held which was home to an abundance of peoples: Christians, Jews, Arabs, Muslims and more. Until WW1 there were no Arab countries in existence in this land mass. Borders were drawn and countries were formed.

Below is one of numerous documents which attests to the fact the today's international narrative on the conflict between Israel and the Arabs disregards historical truth. Note the red encircling and yellow emphasis.

Until and during the first half of the 20th century the use of the term "Palestinian" was used in reference to Jews, as had been the case since the year 133 A.D. The Arabs in Palestine, for the most part drifters, were referred to as Arabs. Documentation before and after the year 1900 attests to this fact.

In more recent times, prior to the establishment of the multi-billion dollar Arab propaganda machine in the early 1960's, Arabs in the Jordanian-held Judea and Samaria (misnamed the West Bank) as well as those in the Gaza Strip held by Egypt, were referred to as Arabs. They were referred to as Arabs because that is what they were, and are till this day.

In 1964 Yasser Arafat planted the seeds of the myth of a "Palestinian" nation. A "People" that had existed since time immemorial when if fact they had immigrated from all over the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe, mostly after the 1880's when Jews in Palestine began to develop advanced industry and medical facilities which offered high-paying wages and modern healthcare.

Today, by way of a brilliant comprehensive indoctrination system which has infiltrated into Western democratic governments and Western universities, this false Arab narrative has been instilled into the political arena of the world. Today even all logic boundaries have been crossed. There are now no boundaries to the fabrication and fraudulence permeated into world society. History is being re-written. As recently as 2013 PA President Mahmoud Abbas stated that "Jesus was a Palestinian messenger who would become a guiding light for millions."

During a 2012 interview with lecturer Dr. Omar Ja'ara of An-Najah University in Nablus, Moses suddenly become a "Muslim who led the Muslim children of Israel out of Egypt." Please take time to witness in this link how YouTube has become a major tool of Arab fraud profileration which is succeeding to embed rewritten history into the minds of unsuspecting young people today.

Relevant links: Hamas Rep Tells Where Arabs of Israel and Jordan Originated
Ex Arab-Israeli Parliament Member "I don't believe there is a Palestinian Nation, I think that is a (British) colonial invention"

Who are the Palestinians? An Arab Invention. CBN.

Inventing a History for a "Palestinian People" That Never Existed In History

by David Bukay

...rewriting the history of the Land of Israel by erasing Jewish history and replacing  

it with a fabricated Palestinian history is a central goal of the Palestinian Authority...

 The vast literature proving the historic Jewish connection to the Land of Israel has been extensively manipulated and distorted as part of the Palestinian politics of nationalism. Propaganda,

Arab Immigration to Palestine

 

In the late 1800’s and the first half of the 20th century many Arabs were attracted to Palestine due to the prosperity brought about by Jewish development of the land: draining swamps, irrigating wastelands, building industries and towns, farms and cities, medical, and learning facilities, for example: in 1882 forty Jewish families, settled in the scorched sands of what is today known as Rishon LeZion (now a thriving city of over 250,000). By 1889 more than 400 Arab families had settled around these few Jewish families, enjoying full time employment and higher wages (300% higher than any area of the Middle East at the time) and medical facilities never before seen --where once Arab women saw half of their children die before the age of five years, the new Jewish medical facilities offered something they had never known or dreamed of.

This repeated itself in many Jewish areas in Palestine both during the Ottoman rule and the later British mandate. It must be remembered that at that time there existed not one Arab country – there were no borders till after WWI. Droves of Arabs arrived from all over the Middle East, Persian Gulf, and Africa. Muslims of other ethnicities arrived from Africa and even Europe (to become part of the Arab group “described” today as “Palestinians”). 

Of course Arabs also came from eastern Palestine -  what later became Jordan when the British partitioned Palestine in the early 1920’s. They continued to this "in-migration" from eastern Palestine until the '48 war (those that went back to eastern Palestine during the war now refer to themselves as refugees and are so recognized the UN).

The Two-State Solution Is Here

The Myth of "Occupation"

 published by Yosef Rabin on Jan 09, 2016 

Even in UN General Assembly Resolution 181, the terms "Palestinian State" or "Palestinians" does not appear a single time

1. The Jewish communities of Judea-Samaria and Eastern Jerusalem* are not located in an “occupied territory.” The last binding international legal instrument which divided the territory of Israel, Judea-Samaria and Eastern Jerusalem*was the League of Nations Mandate, which explicitly recognized the

Betrayal of the Jews - British Military Forces in Palestine

Prior to WW1 there existed not one Arab country in the Middle East. What existed was a land mass governed mostly by the 400 year old Ottoman Empire. The population comprised a multitude of creeds and ethnicities -- Arabs Muslims, Jews, Christians, Druze, to name but a few. The land was divided by borders and control awarded to the strongest clans, which at that time and place meant to "he with the bloodiest dagger." Over 99% of the land was given to Arabs. The Jews were allotted land that had been known as Palestine for 2000 years, or sometimes referred to as Southern Syria.
 

The Mandate for Palestine given to England by the League of Nations after WW1 for the purpose of temporary guardianship. It required England to hold the land for the development of a Jewish state. In an illegal move based on the economic and strategic aims of England, the English illegally severed 78% of Palestine east of the Jordan River and awarded it to a Bedouin by the name of Abdullah I bin al-Hussein from the Saudi Peninsula, to become an Arab state. The remaining 22% of Palestine west of the Jordan River, including Judea and Samaria (aka West Bank) was to become a Jewish state. That remaining 22% of the land is what the so called Mid East conflict is about. While today's Jordan comprises 88% of Palestine and is still populated by a "Palestinian" majority, Israel is expected to give up much of this tiny sliver of land for the creation of yet another Arab Muslim country.

Jordan is Palestine: Debunking the Palestinian Narrative

The Legal Basis of Israel’s Rights in the Disputed Territories

by Amb. Alan Baker

via Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

1. Upon Israel’s taking control of the area in 1967, the 1907 Hague Rules on Land Warfare and the Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) were not considered applicable to the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) territory, as the Kingdom of Jordan, prior to 1967, was never the prior legal sovereign, and in any event has since renounced any claim to sovereign rights via a vis the territory.

Israel's Trojan Horses

Democracy, in Israel, as far as survival goes, has become at best a ludicrous bad dream, or, worse and most probable-- a nightmare -- a weapon used by Fifth Columnists aimed at destroying Israel as a democratic Jewish country. Israeli politics, like in the rest of the Western world, has become driven by one-sided Political Correctness - as if in an alternate world; a "twilight zone" has taken root in Israel, the USA, and the EU. Yes indeed, we have entered the Era of  #ScienceFictionPolitics.

Israel's biggest threat is not from the might of foreign armies, but rather from an enemy within, an enemy that is using the privileges of democracy to bring about its very demise.

Israel, a country the size of a ranch in the US or Australia, and whose very existence sits on a fence -- a pointy picket fence -- wishes to be a super-power in the Science Fictional World of Political Correctness, so adamantly, that she is willing to risk Her very existence.

So in the spirit of this ever-emerging absurd "Russian Roulette" style of law, a style that takes democracy to its outer limits, Israel welcomes into Her parliament (aka Knesset), those that fight daily to destroy Her. Yes, they are paid Members of Knesset that rake in their annual salaries and benefits, paid by Jewish taxpayers of Israel -- paying for their daily activities aimed at bringing Israel to disaster.

And as weird as it may seem, I may get into trouble for describing the situation as it is -- such is the status of "freedom of speech" these days. Much like in the USA today where one is considered a racist for describing the ongoing atrocities around the globe as "Islamic terror" - even when the terrorists themselves claim it is. The alternative to speaking one's mind about this, is to go silently into the night - so I speak, que sera sera.


 Horse #1 Achmad Tibi Former Adviser to Arafat


 Israel pays Arab Knesset members to lecture in the halls of the enemy, to say things such as:

 > "...Welcome to the thousands of shahids (martyrs)..."

> "...and blessings to our shahids within the Greenline..."

> "...those that the occupiers call terrorists while we say there is nothing more admirable than those that die for the homeland..."

Hard to believe? Here, take a gander: Ahmad Tibi - Israeli Arab MP, former adviser to Father of Modern Terrorism, Yasser Arafat, giving this speech:

 

Israeli-Arab Parliament Member 'Achmad Tibi'

Horse #2  Haneen Zoabi

 "...I don’t consider myself just a member of Knesset. We are part of the national project..."

"...Arab Knesset members are part of the 'Palestinian national project,' not Israel's political system..."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hanin Zoabi tells Lebanese media she doesn't feel part of the Knesset, and her only role is to represent Palestinian 'struggle.'

Hamas Admits "Palestinians" Aren't From Around Here

Football Match Between Australia & Palestine - OOPS! No Kafiyas

Before the re-establishment of Israel in 1948, the Palestinians were Jews, as they had been for 2000 years.
The Arabs were... Arabs. Watch this short clip. Listen to the commentator.

Is Jordan Palestine? by Daniel Pipes and Adam Garfinkle

 Excerpts 1988 Article, Middle East Forum

. . ."nobody ever considered the two sides of the Jordan River anything but integral parts of a single land called Palestine." Many American supporters of Israel accept the Jordan-is-Palestine argument. Joan Peters premises her study, From Time Immemorial, on this notion. She routinely calls Israel a "corner of Palestine" and "Western Palestine," while "Eastern Palestine" is her term for Jordan. George F. Will states that "Jordan is Palestine-historically, geographically, ethnically."

A substantial body of opinion has developed in Israel and elsewhere which favors the snappy argument that Jordan is Palestine. Although closely associated with Ariel Sharon, the enfant terrible

What's in a Flag?

Arabs Have a Right to Live Anywhere - Jews Do Not!

How is it that Arabs have a right to live anywhere they please, as they, of course, have internationally recognized civil rights. Jews, on the otherhand, do not have these rights. Jew are being required by the international community to grant the Arabs a Jew-free (Judenrein sound familiar) parcel of land as a starting point for negotiations for a resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Caroline Glick is a Columbia U Graduate, Harvard Graduate, Captain in IDF, Coordinator of Negotiations with the PLO, Foreign Policy Advisor for Israel, Deputy Managing Editor Jerusalem Post, Reporter for Israel's Channel 2 TV, Chicago Sun Times, Israel's Ma'ariv Newspaper, Correspondent with US Forces during liberation of Baghdad. Full bio

Caroline Glick Explains the Roots of genocidal Jew Hatred

by Caroline Glick

...the left in the United States is introducing an ideology that is fundamentally un-American, that is based upon a totalitarian idea...
 (Americans, you will be most interested at the 8:09 mark of this 14:51 min. viewing.) 

 ... made the United States the only country to date that didn't have the same genocidal Jew hatred at the root of it's identity that we saw in country after country in Europe that we see in the Arab world, it was that the United states, it's forefathers, had this idea

Ex - Israeli Arab MP 'Azmi Bashara': "There Is No Palestinian Nation"

"When Were There Palestinians"?

Azmi Bashara, an Israeli-Arab ex-member of the Israeli parliament (Knesset) who later fled for spying against Israel, had this to say on an evening talk show:

". . . I don't think there is a Palestinian Nation at all. Nooo, I believe there is an Arab Nation,

Arab's Own Words Debunk The "Palestinian" Fairy Tale

Arabs have stated. . .

Zuhair Muhsin, military commander of the PLO and member of the PLO Executive Council after Six Day War:

 “There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity… yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel.”

 Representative of Saudi Arabia at the United Nations, 1956:

“It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but Southern Syria.”

Jordan is Palestine - The Myth of "Occupation"

 by Yosef Rabin on Jan 09, 2016

 Even in UN General Assembly Resolution 181, the terms "Palestinian State" or "Palestinians" does not appear a single time.

1. The Jewish communities of Judea-Samaria and Eastern Jerusalem* are not located in an “occupied territory.” The last binding international legal instrument which divided the territory of Israel, Judea-Samaria and Eastern Jerusalem*was the League of Nations Mandate, which explicitly recognized the right of Jewish

Growing Illegal Arab ‘Occupation’ of Jewish Land

By Renanah Goldhar-Gemeiner,  United With Israel

Syrian governor Tawfik Bey el-Huarani.testified that in a period of only 3-4 months in 1933, 30,000-36,000 Arabs illegally entered Palestine from Syria.

Ibn Khaldun, an Arab historian, wrote in 1377: “Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel extended over 1400 years…It was the Jews who implanted the culture and customs of the permanent settlement.” 

The claim that Arabs, or so-called “Palestinians,” have national historical rights to the Land of Israel is false, and its purpose is to destroy the Jewish State.

Is Hussein Obama Helping to Shape the Arab Narrative?

There can be little doubt that Hussein Obama is playing an active roll honing the direction of the Arab narrative relating to their age-old goal of destroying Israel. In 2010 the Egyptian Foreign Minister reported having Obama say to him: "I have a problem with some domestic issues, and as soon as I finish with the health care question, you Muslims will see what I will do for Islam regarding Israel."

In light of Hussein Obama's astounding policies evolving in the Middle East, the information provided in this 3 minute clip seems irrefutable. It seems quite clear that while Obama is "fundamentally changing the face of America," as he promised, he is also fundimentaly changing the structure of the Arab-Israeli conflict

Moreover, Hussein Obama has surrounded himself with personnel that are members of the Muslim Brotherhood. All of America's security branches have reported that they have been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood. The education system has "advisers" shaping the education of American children. They will be the voters of tomorrow.

 

See also: Does Hussein Obama intend to shoot down Israeli Jets if they attack Iran? After all, the agreement he signed with Iran says just that. 1 min clip

H. Shipless

The Arab Narrative At Work Within Israel

by H. Shipless

Today, after 38 years in Israel, I drive on the highway from Akko-Acco east towards the Sea of Galilee. Along the way are large advertisement billboards. I have no idea what they say or what they are selling. They are written in Arabic. Not one word in Hebrew. Central Galilee, main highway - in this year 2011.

San Remo's Mandate: Israel's 'Magna Carta' By Chris Mitchell

By Chris Mitchell

CBN News Middle East Bureau Chief

Monday, April 25, 2011

"The U.N. General Assembly exceeded its authority, exceeded its jurisdiction. It did not have the power to divide the country,"

JERUSALEM, Israel - This year marks the 91st anniversary of the resolution that transformed the Middle East and laid the groundwork for the formation of the modern state of Israel.

On April 25, 1920, delegations from the Allied nations that triumphed in World War I met in San Remo, Italy, to divide the Middle Eastern lands they had conquered.

That historical meeting transformed the Middle East because, for the first time in nearly 2,000 years, the world's nations called for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in the land that was then called Palestine.

That decision effectively answered a fundamental issue that still plagues the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks today: whether Israel is an occupying power or it has a rightful claim to the land.

Dividing an Empire

 

In San Remo - England, France, Italy, and Japan, with the United States as an observer, divided the Ottomam Empire empire into three mandates: Iraq, Syria and Palestine.

Until its defeat in World War 1, the 400-year-old empire had spread itself throughout the Middle East. Now, France would oversee Syria, while Iraq and Palestine fell under Great Britain.

The resolution also included the Balfour Declaration, written by England's Lord Balfour in 1917. The declaration called for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." One British diplomat, Lord Curzon, called it Israel's "Magna Carta."

Arab's Lion-Share, Israel's Niche 

 

"Chaim Weizman said, at the time, you can say that the Israeli state was born on the 25th of April in San Remo because that was the significance of it," Sandell said.

Howard Grief said the resolution, which was adopted by the League of Nations, established several important precedents.

In his book, The Legal Foundation and Borders of Israel under International Law, Grief explains that the resolution gave the Jewish people exclusive legal and political rights in Palestine. It also gave the Arabs the same rights for the remainder of the Middle East.

"The Arabs got the lion's share….I mean they got Syria, which was subsequently divided between Syria and Lebanon," Grief said.

"They got all of Mesopotamia and all of Arabia. This is what Balfour himself said. 'Why are you complaining? You are getting all these lands and we're granting a niche - he called it a niche - to the Jewish people who were going to get Palestine," he said.

Immutable Law

 

Grief also explained that the 1920 San Remo resolution supersedes later U.N. resolutions.

"There is a doctrine in international law," Grief said. "Once you recognize a certain situation, the matter is executed. You can't change it."

"The U.N. General Assembly exceeded its authority, exceeded its jurisdiction. It did not have the power to divide the country," he said.

Settling Contested 'Settlements'

 

But what about all those contested Israeli "settlements" in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) that many people - including U.N. Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon - say are illegal?

"Settlements are covered in Article 6 of the mandate for Palestine," Eli Hertz, president of Myths and Facts, explained to conference participants.

"Again the legal international document of the mandate for Palestine and [it] clearly says that not only [do] the Jews have the right to settlement, but the world has the obligation to help them to settle," Hertz explained.

This legal right of the Jews to build in Judea and Samaria or in east Jerusalem neighborhoods is little understood in the world today.

Sandell said he hopes to remedy that problem.

"We feel that we have an historical duty to just bring the facts to the table," Sandell said. "Because we are here dealing with historical facts and this should be known and this should be taken into consideration in the public debate."

Watch More:

Watch expanded interviews with some of the participants in this historic event commemorating the 90th anniversary of the San Remo resolution: 

• Tomas Sandell, the founding director of the European Coalition for Israel, helped organize the 90th anniversary event.  ECI seeks to education European leaders "about the complex realities of the conflict in the Middle East by acknowledging the right for Israel, as the only democracy in the region, to exist within secure borders."  Click here for more from Sandell.  
• Eli Hertz is the president of Myths and Facts, a research organization focused much on the Middle East. Hertz has written a short pamphlet on this subject called "This Land is My Land: Mandate for Palestine, Legal Aspects of Jewish Rights," an excellent primer and succinct explanation of the legal foundation of the Jewish state.

Palestine Mandate Granted by League of Nations

The Council of the League of Nations:

Art. 5  The Mandatory shall be responsible for seeing that no Palestine territory shall be ceded or leased to, or in any way placed under the control of the Government of any foreign Power.

Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have agreed, for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, to entrust to a Mandatory selected by the said Powers the administration of the territory of Palestine, which formerly belonged to the Turkish Empire, within such boundaries as may be fixed by them; and
Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have also agreed that the Mandatory should be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on November 2nd, 1917, by the Government of His Britannic Majesty, and adopted by the said Powers, in favor of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing
non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country; and Whereas recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country; and
Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have selected His Britannic Majesty as the Mandatory for Palestine; and Whereas the mandate in respect of Palestine has been formulated in the following terms and submitted to the Council of the League for approval; and Whereas His Britannic Majesty has accepted the mandate in respect of Palestine and undertaken to exercise it on behalf of the League