One in Messiah Congregation
Gen.10[
14] And Pathrusim, and Casluhim,
(out of whom came Philistim,
Gen.21[ 32] Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines. over 200 times
Exod.15[
14] The people shall hear, and
be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of
Palestina
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[31] Howl, O
gate; cry, O city; thou, whole
Palestina Joel.3[
4] Yea, and what have ye to
do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of
Palestine?
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BDB Definition: Philistia = land of sojourners
1) the general territory on the west coast of Canaan or
the entire country of Palestine
Part of Speech: noun proper
palestina, 3
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, Isa_14:29
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Isa_14:31
philistia, 3
Psa_60:8
, Psa_87:4
, Psa_108:9
palestine, 1
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NT 79 matches - Israel , no Palestine
OT 2523 matches - Israel
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The Myth of Palestine
Joseph Farar, Arab-American Journalist, Dec.
2000
I've been quiet since Israel erupted in fighting spurred by
disputes over the Temple Mount.
Until now, I haven't even bothered to say, See, I told you
so. But I can't resist any longer. I feel compelled to remind you of the
column I wrote just a couple of weeks before the latest uprising.
Yeah, folks, I predicted it. That's OK. Hold your applause.
After all, I wish I had been wrong. More than 80 people have been killed since
the current fighting in and around Jerusalem began. And for what?
If you believe what you read in most news sources, Palestinians
want a homeland and Muslims want control over sites they consider holy. Simple,
right?
Well, as an Arab-American journalist who has spent some time
in the Middle East dodging more than my share of rocks and mortar shells, I've
got to tell you that these are just phony excuses for the rioting, trouble-making
and land-grabbing. Isn't it interesting that prior to the 1967 Arab-Israeli
war, there was no serious movement for a Palestinian homeland?
Well. Farah, you might say, that was before the Israelis
seized the West Bank and Old Jerusalem.
That's true. In the Six-Day War, Israel captured Judea, Samaria
and East Jerusalem. But they didn't capture these territories from Yasser
Arafat. They captured them from Jordan's King Hussein. I can't help but wonder
why all these Palestinians suddenly discovered their national identity after
Israel won the war.
The 'Palestine' Fantasy
Palestine has never existed before or since as an autonomous
entity. It was ruled alternately by Rome, by Islamic and Christian crusaders,
by the Ottoman Empire and, briefly by the British after World War I. The British
agreed to restore at least part of the land to the Jewish people as their homeland.
1) There is no language known as Palestinian.
2) There is no distinct Palestinian culture.
3) There has never been a land known as Palestine governed
by Palestinians.
Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another
recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc. Keep in mind that the Arabs
control 99.9 percent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth
of 1 percent of the landmass.
But that's too much for the Arabs. They want it all. And that
is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today: Greed. Pride. Envy.
Covetousness. No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will
never be enough.
What about 6/11/04?
There are none in Jerusalem. Shocked? You should be. I don't expect you will
ever hear this brutal truth from anyone else in the international media. It's
just not 'politically correct'. I know what you're going to say: Farah,
the Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem represent Islam's
third most holy sites. Not true. In fact, the Koran says nothing about Jerusalem.
It mentions Mecca hundreds of times. It mentions Medina countless times. It
never mentions Jerusalem. With good reason. There is no historical evidence
to suggest Mohammed ever visited Jerusalem.
So how did Jerusalem become the third holiest
site of Islam?
The latest round of violence in Israel erupted when Likud Party
leader Ariel Sharon tried to visit the Temple Mount, the foundation of the
Temple built by Solomon. It is the holiest site for the Jews. Sharon and his
entourage were met with stones and threats. I know what it's like. I've been
there. Can you imagine what it is like for Jews to be threatened, stoned and
physically kept out of the holiest site in Judaism?
Is there a Solution?
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Muslim writer: Jerusalem not sacred
A columnist for an Egyptian government journal has called into
question the established Muslim belief that Jerusalem is a sacred Islamic city.
Writing for the weekly Al-Qahira, published by the Egyptian
Ministry of Culture, Ahmad Muhammad 'Arafa rejects the Islamic doctrine that
the Prophet Muhammad's celebrated "Night Journey" took him from Mecca
to Jerusalem.
From Mecca to
???
MEMRI said the column constitutes a "dramatic departure"
from a standard Islamic belief held for more than 1,300 years.
"The fact that this article was published in a government
journal adds to its political significance," the Washington, D.C.-based
group noted.
Jerusalem, at the center of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict,
is considered to be Islam's third holiest city, after the Saudi Arabian cities
of Mecca and Medina.
The text of the Quranic passage says, according to a translation,
"Praise be to Him who took His servant by night from the Al-Haram [Sacred]
Mosque [in Mecca] to the Al-Aqsa [literally 'the most distant'] Mosque, whose
environs We did bless, so that We might show him some of Our signs, for He
is the All-Hearing and All-Seeing One."
The History: Al-Aqsa Wasn't Built Yet
"But in Palestine during that time, there was no mosque
at all that could have been the mosque 'most distant' from the Al-Haram Mosque,"
he said, according to MEMRI. "During that time, there were no people in
[Palestine] who believed in Muhammad and would gather to pray in a specific
place that served as a mosque."
The Egyptian columnist noted most of the inhabitants of Palestine
at that time were Christians and a Jewish minority.
"The construction of the mosque situated today in Jerusalem
and known as the Al-Aqsa Mosque began only in the year 66 of the Hijra of the
prophet that is, during the era of the Omayyad state, not during the time
of the prophet nor that of any of the righteous caliphs," he said. "So
much for the mosque."
"The fact that this article was published in a government
journal adds to its political significance" MEMRI (Middle East Media
Research Institute)
The Al-Aqsa Mosque and the adjacent Muslim shrine known as
the Dome of the Rock were built after Caliph Omar I captured Jerusalem from
the Persians, six years after Muhammad's death in AD 632.
Omar decreed that the Jews holy Temple Mount was the place
referred to in the Quran.
According to the Jewish Scriptures, Solomon built the First
Temple on that spot, where Abraham was prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac.
Arafa says the Quranic expression "He took His servant
by night" means Muhammad ordered him to journey in secret from his enemies
to a place where he and his mission would be secure.
"In other words, the text speaks of the Hijra of the prophet
from Mecca to Medina, and not of a visit to Palestine," Arafa said. "[Indeed],
the Hijra of the Prophet [to Medina] was carried out unbeknownst to his enemies."
Arafa concludes the Night Journey began at the Al-Haram Mosque
in Mecca "after the prophet had prayed there with his companion, and both
of them had left it, and the journey ended at the mosque of As'ad ibn Zurara,
in front of the house of Abu Ayyub Al-Ansari, in Medina, where the prophet
built the mosque known as the Mosque of the Prophet."
The details of the journey of the Hijra, or emigration, Arafa
says, "are the very same details of the Night Journey, because the Night
Journey is indeed the secret Hijra."
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Muslim Professor: Koran agrees that Holy
Land is Jewish
June 6, 2004, Arutz Sheva
Prof. Khaleel Mohammed, Assistant Professor at the Department
of Religious Studies at San Diego State University, is the latest Muslim expert
to say that the Koran - the holiest Muslim work - is actually Zionist.
In an interview with Jamie Glazov of i
(June 3, 2004), Mohammed quoted the Koran (5:20-21) as
saying: "Moses said to his people: O my people! Remember the bounty of
God upon you when He bestowed prophets upon you, and made you kings and gave
you that which had not been given to anyone before you amongst the nations.
O my people! Enter the Holy Land which God has written for you, and do not
turn tail, otherwise you will be losers."
Mohammed emphasized that the above phrase, "God has written
for you," is very significant: "In both Jewish and Islamic understandings
of the term 'written,' there is the meaning of finality, decisiveness, and
immutability...So the simple fact is then, from a faith-based point of view:
If God has 'written' Israel for the people of Moses, who can change this?"
He also quoted two of Islam's most famous exegetes - Ibn Kathir and Muhammad
al-Shawkani - as supporting this explanation.
Imam Abdul Hadi Palazzi, secretary-general of the
Italian Muslim Association, has long
promoted that it is possible to be a Muslim scholar and leader and still support
America, Israel, and democracy. Citing pro-Jewish verses in the Koran, Palazzi
told a Jewish audience in Cleveland recently, "There are many good Muslims
who value life on earth and the sanctity of their families. Israel should make
every effort to support the growth of a pro-Israel movement among these Muslims...[but
sadly, Muslims in Israel were emotionally and morally defeated by the Oslo
Accords.] They felt that Israel was selling them out to Arafat. They need to
be supported and encouraged to speak out in defense of Israel without fear
of being assassinated by the PLO [Palestine Liberation Organization] or Hamas...Oslo
signaled to many of us that Israel was ready to accept peace at any price,
and make incredible concessions to ruthless criminals."
Arab-American Nonie Darwish has recently opened a Web site,
www.ArabsforIsrael.com
. The site states, inter alia, "We are Arabs and [Muslims]
who believe we can support the State of Israel and the Jewish religion and
still treasure our Arab and Islamic culture."
Mohammed, in his interview with FrontPageMagazine, apportions
at least partial blame for today's wars to the Muslims of the seventh century:
"[W]hen the Muslims entered that land [the Holy Land] in the seventh century,
they were well aware of its rightful owners [the Jews], and when they failed
to act according to divine mandate (at least as perceived by followers of all
Abrahamic faiths), they aided and abetted in a crime. And the present situation
shows the fruits of that action - wherein innocent Palestinians and Israelis
are being killed on a daily basis."
"When the Muslims conquered Jerusalem," Mohammed
continued, "it should have been left open for the rightful owners to return.
It is possible that Jewish beliefs of the time only allowed such return under
a Messiah - but that should not have influenced Muslim action...[The] Muslim
occupation and building a mosque on the site of the Temple was something that
was not sanctioned by the Koran. How honest is contemporary Islam with this?
Given the situation in the Middle East, politicking, etc. stands in the way
of honesty."
Mohammed says that Muslim groups have frequently denounced
him because he is "out of line with the geopolitical movement toward fundamentalism."
"What your readers must understand is that fundamentalism is rapidly becoming
mainstream. Moderation is not. A perfect example is in Akbar Ahmed's "Islam
Under Siege," where he points out that the Taliban are no longer a fringe
group in Pakistan; many Pakistanis are finding themselves drawn to their teachings.
Right here in the U.S., I present a problem to those at mosques who use social
pressure to coerce others into accepting their extremism
Many Muslims stand
against me for no other reason than I say that Israel has a right to exist...I
in no way deny that Palestinians have rights. But this is generally not considered
by those that criticize my position..."
from http://www.rbooker.com
"The Myth of Palestine"
Myth #1 - The Myth of Palestine
The Arab world has certainly demonstrated great skill in the
"myth" of imagination. They have done such a good job that they have
convinced much of the world that their "myths" are facts.
Perhaps their biggest myth is the myth of Palestine.
The Arab world would have us believe that the Palestinians
have been in "Palestine" from "time immemorial" but were
displaced by the Jews when Israel became a state in 1948. But what are the
facts?
While we are not certain of the exact dates, Joshua conquered
the Land God promised the Jews in the 13th century BCE. King David established
Jerusalem as the capital of Israel around 1000 BCE. King Solomon built the
Jewish Temple about 960 BCE. This was almost 1000 years before the beginning
of Christianity and 1600 years before the rise of Islam. As Prime Minister
Barak has noted, "When Jesus came to Jerusalem to celebrate the feasts,
he didn't come to a church or a mosque, he came to the Temple." It is
not the Church Mount or the Mosque Mount that is fought over, it is the Temple
Mount. It was the Temple Mount centuries before Christianity tried to make
it the Church Mount and Islam tried to make it the Mosque Mount.
However, not to be confused with facts, in a personal audience
I had several years ago with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who was appointed
by Arafat, he boldly declared that the Arabs had been living in the Land for
10,000 years. Based on conservative Bible chronology, that means the Arabs
have been living in the Land before the Almighty created Adam and Eve
.
How did Israel become Palestine and who are the Palestinians?
The second Jewish war with the Romans took place in 132-135 CE. Led by Rabbi
Akiva and Simon bar Kochba, the Jewish uprising was crushed by the Roman Emperor
Hadrian who sought to de-Judaize Jerusalem and make it a pagan city. Hadrian
renamed Jerusalem "Aelia Capitolina" in honor of Jupiter. He changed
the name of Judea and gave it the name of the Jews ancient enemy, the Philistines.
He called it -- Palestine.
Over time, Palestine was ruled by the Roman Byzantines (312-637)
[Persian interrupt 614-629], Omayyad Arabs (638-750), Islamic Abbassid's (750-1099),
Crusaders (1099-1291) [Saladin the Kurd interrupt 1187-93], Mamluks (1291-1516),
Ottoman Turks (1517-1917), and the British Mandate (1917-1948).
None of these rulers established a sovereign state in the Land
and Jerusalem was never the capital of any empire since the time of King David.
Palestine was a forgotten desolate, wasteland, but
historical records show there was always a Jewish presence in the Land.
The revival of modern Jewish life in the Land began in the
1880's with the arrival of Russian refugees from the Russian pogroms. A second
wave of immigration, also from Russia, was in 1905. This was followed by later
immigrations resulting in a growing Jewish population in the Land. When the
Jews came to the Land, they found a malaria infested swamp in the north and
an uninhabitable desert in the south. It was as if the God of the Bible had
kept the Land hidden away in obscurity until the rightful owners -- the Jews
returned to claim it.
The Jewish pioneers did not steal the Land from the Arabs.
They purchased the Land at highly inflated prices from absentee landlords living
outside the Land. As the Jews worked the Land, it began to prosper. While there
were Jews and Arabs living in the Land, there were many poor migrant Arab farm
workers in the surrounding Arab countries who needed work. When they heard
that the Land was prospering under the hand of the Jews, they migrated to Palestine
to get work from the Jews. Furthermore, the British allowed many thousands
of Arabs into Palestine illegally while barring the Jews from entering the
Land. For the most part, the Arab Palestinians are these peasant farm workers
and illegal aliens.
"Palestinians" have never been a distinct people,
they have never had a sovereign land called Palestine, Jerusalem has never
been their capital, there is no Palestinian language or culture, and there
is no Palestinian people. It is a myth created after the Jews liberated Jerusalem
in 1967.
Before the birth of the State of Israel, Arab leaders themselves
denied the existence of an Arab country called Palestine. In 1937, Arab leader,
Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi said, "There is no such country [as Palestine]! 'Palestine'
is a term the Zionists invented! There is no Palestine in the Bible. 'Palestine"
is alien to us; it is the Zionists who introduced it." In 1946, a distinguished
Princeton professor and Arab historian said, "There is no such thing as
Palestine in Arab history, absolutely not."
Israel became a state in the War of Independence in 1948. At
that time, approximately 600,000 Arabs fled to become refugee pawns in the
hands of neighboring Arab states. Some number of Arabs stayed to become Israeli
citizens. While we certainly sympathize with the plight of the Arab refugees,
their problems could easily be solved if their Arab brothers cared enough to
assimilate them as the Jews did their own 800,000 immigrants from the Arab
countries.
"The Myth of Arab Refugees"
"The Myth of Yasser Arafat"
At the end of the First World War, Britain was given the mandate
to administer Palestine. The British government appointed Sir Herbert Samuel,
a British Jew, as Palestine High Commissioner. Sir Herbert Samuel arrived in
Palestine on July 1, 1920. Unfortunately, history tell us that Sir Herbert
was a weak administrator who was all to ready to compromise for what he thought
was for the sake of peace.Perhaps because he was a Jew, and not wanting to
appear partial, Sir Herbert appeased the extremist, nationalistic Arab minority
led by a violent, fanatical zealot named Haj Amin al-Husseini. Husseini was
from a prominent Arab Palestinian family who were fervent Anti-Zionists. The
British had earlier imprisoned Husseini for instigating an Arab attack against
Jews who were praying at the Western Wall.
Husseini was the first proponent of militant, Arab Palestinian
nationalism. He was an all or nothing terrorist who was determined to drive
out or destroy the Jews or be destroyed himself, regardless of how many lives
were wasted in the process. Once he was in power, he began a campaign of terror
and intimidation against anyone opposed to his rule and policies. He not only
killed Jews but also Arabs who did not support his campaign of violence. Husseini
was not willing to negotiate or make any kind of compromise for the sake of
peace.
Once again we turn to Winston Churchill who tried to reason
with the Arabs with the Western understanding of "give and take"
so that all parties would have at least some of their demands satisfied. Churchill
noted that the Arabs refused to negotiate but came to the "peace talks"
thinking they could give nothing while expecting the other side to make huge
concessions with no guarantees that the concessions would lead to peace. He
was baffled that the Arabs were unwilling to offer even one percent in order
to get ninety-nine percent. They had no consideration of the claims and needs
of others, but only their own.
Many moderate Arabs fled Palestine out of fear of Husseini.
He raised the stakes of the Arab-Jewish conflict and took control away from
the more moderate Arabs who desired to live in peace with the Jews. Mainly
because of him, attempts to establish peaceful relations between Arabs and
Jews came to an end. He plunged the Arab world into a political and religious
"jihad" against the Jewish people that set the course for the Arab-Israeli
conflict in the Middle East.
Husseini instigated bloody riots against the Jews in 1920-1921
and again in 1929. In 1929, Husseini concocted a story that the Jews praying
at the Western Wall were taking over the Al-Aqsua Mosque. Sound familiar? He
massacred the Jews at the Wall. This triggered a riot by Arabs in Hebron. On
the Sabbath of August 24, Arabs murdered sixty-seven Jewish men, women and
children in Hebron and destroyed the synagogues. This violent action brought
an end to a Jewish presence in Hebron that had been there for thousands of
years.
He saw Hitler's "final solution to the Jewish problem"
as the answer to his own desire to eliminate the presence of Jews in Palestine.
Husseini imported Nazi influence into Palestine and
used Nazi funds to finance his terrorist activities.
He openly supported Hitler and Mussolini and led a revolt against
the British in 1936-1939. He was forced to flee to Iraq where he cooperated
with the Nazis in a failed coup attempt against the British. He then fled to
Germany where, in November of 1941, he was greeted with open arms by Hitler
himself.
Husseini was known as the "Arab Fuhrer." He used
his program on Radio Berlin
to exhort the Arabs in the Middle East to murder the Jews in a holy war that
pleased Allah. While at the same time, he prodded the Nazis to further zeal
in completing their "final solution to the Jewish problem." In one
instance, he learned that Adolf Eichman intended to swap thousands of Jewish
children for German POWs. His protest forced Eichman to cancel the swap, resulting
in the children being sent to death camps in Poland. On another occasion, Husseini
traveled to Bosnia where he recruited Bosnian Moslems for the SS. They slaughtered
ninety percent of Bosnia's Jews. The only condition Husseini set for assisting
the Nazis was that, after they won the war, they would murder all the Jews
in Palestine. After the war was over, Husseini fled to Cairo where he was given
a heroes welcome.
During the war, Arab Nazi parties were founded throughout the
Middle East. The most influential one was "Young Egypt" which was
established in 1933. Young Egypt imitated the Nazi party in their ideology,
slogans, processionals, and anti-Semitic actions. When the war was over, a
member of Young Egypt named Gamal Abdul Nasser led the coup in 1952 that overthrew
the Egyptian government. He made Egypt a safe haven for Nazi war criminals
and, in 1964, he established the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).
Eventually the leadership of the PLO was taken over by a
man named Rahman Abdul Rauf al-Qudwa al-Husseini. Al-Husseini
was a nephew and great admirer of Uncle Haj Amin al-Husseini. He was born in
Cairo in 1929 and grew up in the Gaza strip. His mother, Hamida, was a cousin
of the Grand Mufti. Due to internal Arab strife, his father Abdul Rauf al-Qudwa
was forced to flee Gaza where the family took refuge in Egypt.
Al-Husseini's cousin is Faisal al-Husseini who is the grandson
of Haj Amin al-Husseini and the PLO representative in Jerusalem who has directed
attacks on the Jews praying at the Western Wall. When
Rahman Abdul Rauf al-Qudwa al-Husseini enrolled at the University of Cairo
in 1951, he decided to conceal his true identity and registered under the name
"Yasser Arafat."
Yes, Uncle Haj, the Arab Fuhrer himself, passed his legacy
of hatred of Jews to his nephew Yasser Arafat who has passed the same legacy
of hatred to the next generation of young Arabs. Through the PLO, he seeks
to further the Arab Nazi goal of eliminating the Jews from the Land. However,
like his notorious uncle, Yasser Arafat will fail, and after he has passed
from the scene, the Israeli flag will still be flying high over Jerusalem,
the eternal, undivided capital of Israel.
Koran says the Land is Israels'
The Cow[
2.27] Who break the
covenant of Allah after its confirmation
and cut asunder what Allah has ordered to be joined, and make mischief in the
land; these it is that are the losers.
[2.40] O children of Israel! call to mind My favor which
I bestowed on you and be faithful to (your) covenant with Me, I will fulfill
(My) covenant with you; and of Me, Me alone, should you be afraid.
[2.83] And when
We made a covenant with the children of Israel
: You shall not serve any but Allah and (you shall do)
good to (your) parents, and to the near of kin and to the orphans and the needy,
and you shall speak to men good words and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate.
Then you turned back except a few of you and (now too) you turn aside.
[3.187] And
when Allah made a covenant with those who were given
the Book: You shall certainly make it known to men and you shall not hide it
; but they cast it behind their backs and took a small
price for it; so evil is that which they buy.
[5.12] And
certainly Allah made a covenant with the children of
Israel, and We raised up among them twelve chieftains;
and Allah said: Surely I am with you; if you keep up prayer and
pay the poor-rate and believe in My apostles and asslst them and offer to Allah
a goodly gift, I will most certainly cover your evil deeds, and I will most
certainly cause you to enter into gardens beneath which rivers flow, but whoever
disbelieves from among you after that, he indeed shall lose the right way.
[17.104] And
We said to the Israelites after him: Dwell in the land
: and when the promise of the next life shall come
to pass, we will bring you both together in judgment.
The truth is that 'Palestine' is no more real than
Never-Never Land.
The first time the name was used was in 70 A.D. when the Romans committed genocide
against the Jew, smashed the Temple and declared the land of Israel would be
no more. From then on, the Romans promised, it would be known as Palestine.
The name was derived from the Philistines, a Goliathian people conquered by
the Jews centuries earlier. It was a way for the Romans to add insult to injury
They also tried to change the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina, but that
had even less staying power.
Muslims today cite a vague passage in the Koran, the
seventeenth Sura, entitled The Night Journey. It relates that in a dream
or a vision Mohammed was carried by night from the sacred temple to the temple
that is most remote, whose precinct we have blessed, that we might show him
our signs... In the seventh century some Muslims identified the two temples
mentioned in this verse as being in Mecca and Jerusalem. And thats as close
as Islam's connection with Jerusalem gets--myth, fantasy wishful thinking.
Meanwhile, Jews can trace their roots in Jerusalem back to the days of Abraham.
So what's the solution to the Middle East mayhem?
Well, frankly I don't think there is a man-made solution to the violence.
But, if there is one, it needs to begin with truth. Pretending will only lead
to more chaos. Treating a 5,000-year-old birthright backed by overwhelming
historical and archaeological evidence equally with illegitimate claims, wishes
and wants gives diplomacy and peacekeeping a bad namews to be threatened, stoned
and physically kept out of the holiest site in Judaism?
Official Egyptian weekly reinterprets Muhammad's 'Night Journey'
Posted: September 4, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
The passage in Quran 17:1 known as the Sura of the
Night Journey does not refer to a miraculous trip from Mecca to Jerusalem,
but to the prophet's emigration from Mecca to Medina, Arafa asserts in his
Aug. 5 article.
Arafa contends "Al-Aqsa" must refer to an
existing mosque, not a place where a mosque would be established later.
Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda and Information,
said that a big lie that is told often enough and long enough will eventually
be accepted as truth. With cooperation from the world's media, coupled with
ignorance, apathy, and anti-Semitism among the nations, Israel is being presented
as a giant Goliath killing little Davids who are only armed with stones. There
would be peace in the Middle East if only Goliath Israel would agree to little
David's demand for a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. This
is one of the many lies constantly repeated to the uninformed West. The purpose
of this presentation is to expose some of the myths (read that big lies) regarding
the Arab-Israeli conflict.
In an article entitled, "The Lesson of Palestine,"
printed in the Middle East Journal
, October 1949, Arab activist, Musa Alami, wrote, "how can
people struggle for their nation, when most of them do not know the meaning
of the word?
The people are in great need of a "myth" of imagination.
The myth of nationality would create "identity" and "self-respect."
All who lived in the Land, Jews, Arabs, and Christians,
were called Palestinians. In fact, the Jerusalem Post
was called the Palestinian Post. Under the British Mandate, the Palestinian
Jews were given a state. But before this state came into existence, Colonial
Secretary, Winston Churchill, in 1922, took away seventy-seven percent of the
geographic area promised to the Jews and created Transjordan as a state for
the Palestinian Arabs. Israel would be for the Palestinian Jews and Transjordan
(now Jordan) for the Palestinian Arabs.
When Israel became a nation, 800,000 Jewish refugees
fled from the Arab states to Israel. While it took tremendous sacrifice on
the part of the new nation, these refugees, whose land and money was confiscated
by the Arabs, were assimilated in the fledgling new state and became productive
citizens of Israel. The growing Arab Palestinian population was not as fortunate.
Arab leaders from the neighboring countries declared war against Israel. They
then instructed the Arab Palestinians to flee the Jewish state until the Jews
were annihilated. They then could return and possess the land. While there
is no doubt that Jewish fighters drove some Arabs away, the Jewish leaders
encouraged the Arabs to stay. The great majority of Arabs were not expelled
but left without ever seeing an Israeli soldier.
The hated "Jewish-Zionists" did not force
the Arab Palestinians to leave. Their own leaders forced them to leave the
land. This created the Arab Palestinian refugee problem. The Arab countries
have refused to assimilate the Arab Palestinians and care for their needs.
Instead, they continue to use them as political pawns in their struggle against
Israel.
Promising them glory, money, and paradise, and I might
add CNN cameras, the PLO and other terrorist organizations have no problem
recruiting young Arab Palestinians to fight the "Zionist" enemy.
In fact, Yasser Arafat conducts youth camps where he teaches young people how
to fight the Jews. He dresses up small children in uniforms and teaches them
how to blow themselves up as martyrs. And as the whole world now knows, he
sends children out to fight his battles for him.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) was given the responsibility
of administrating the refugee problem. The billions of dollars given by the
UNRWA to assist the "refugees" comes primarily from the American
taxpayer. This has become a big business with thousands profiting from it.
No one connected with it has any interest in ending the plight of the displaced
Arab Palestinians. The real legitimate right of these people is to be assimilated
by the Arab countries from which they initially came.
One of the greatest myths is the myth of Yasser Arafat.
To understand the deception of Yasser Arafat, we must look briefly at the situation
in pre-Israel Palestine during the British Mandate. The moral of this story
is that those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.
A crisis that would have lasting consequences occurred in 1921 when the existing
Arab Mufti (religious leader) died. Due to influence by anti-Zionist British
officials on his staff, Sir Herbert released Husseini from prison and appointed
him as the new Mufti, even elevating him to the title of Grand Mufti. He became
the religious and political leader of the Arabs. Husseini was only in his mid-twenties
at this time, but he already had a history of violence against Jews.
[26.54] Most surely these are
a small company;
[26.55] And most surely they
have enraged us;
[26.56] And most surely we are
a vigilant multitude.
[26.57] So We turned them out of gardens and springs,
[26.58] And treasures and goodly
dwellings,
[26.59] Even so. And We gave them as a heritage to the children of Israel.
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