So I prophesied… there
was a noise...shaking, and the bones came together,
bone to bone… sinews and flesh came up upon them,
and skin covered them above: but there was no breath
in them.
Then said He unto me, “Prophesy unto the wind, Son
of man, and say to the wind, ‘Thus saith the Lord
God: ‘Come from the four winds, O breath, and
breathe upon these slain, that they may live.’ “
So I prophesied… and the breath came into them, they
lived, and stood up upon their feet...
Then He said unto me, “Son of man, these bones are
the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, ‘Our
bones are dried, and our hope is lost....Therefore
prophesy and say, ‘Thus saith the Lord God; Behold,
O My people, I will open your graves, and cause you
to come up out of your graves, and bring you into
the land of Israel....’ “
Whoa...! Heavy stuff...I still get goose bumps...
Written some twenty-six centuries or so ago, if this
wasn’t the resurrected phoenix of the
Jews--Israel--then I’m Michelangelo.
And when Jews from the remote corners of the “Arab”
world--where they also didn’t know what the morrow
would bring and were commonly known as yahud kelb/Jew
Dog killers of prophets--were gathered to be flown
to Israel, with tears they recited the Hebrew
prophecy predicting that they would return to Israel
on the wings of eagles as they boarded the planes
used in Operation Magic Carpet.
One of those above 1948 Arab attackers, Transjordan,
became independent two years earlier. Its army was
led by British officers and, like Egypt’s, was well
equipped with Allied armaments left in the region
after World War II.
Since the Emirate’s
own story is crucial for understanding attempts made
to try to balance conflicting Arab and Jewish claims
over that part of the Turks’ previous empire which
emerged as the Mandate of Palestine after World War
I, I frequently reference this in my work. Arabs
bring up their tale of how Jews allegedly stole all
of the land over and over again; hence my own need
to repeatedly remind readers of the truth as well.
Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill convened the
Cairo Conference in 1921. As a result of this and
other machinations of the latest empire (the Brits’)
to acquire the land of the Jews--Judaea--since the
fall of the latter to Hadrian’s Roman armies in 135
C.E.,www.ekurd.net
Britain’s Hashemite Arab
allies were awarded all of the original 1920 Mandate
of Palestine east of the Jordan River--almost 80% of
the total area–in 1922.
Transjordan’s King Abdullah attributed this gift to
an act of Allah in his memoirs. Along with other
observers, Sir Alec Kirkbride, the Brits’ East Bank
(of the Jordan River) rep, had much to say about
this as well in A Crackle Of Thorns.
Not long afterwards, Abdullah’s brother, Emir
Faisal, was gifted with all of the Mandate of
Mesopotamia--renamed Iraq. Millions of Kurds thus
saw their own best chance at independence shattered
on behalf of Arab nationalism and British Petroleum
politics as well.
The Ottoman Turkish Empire had ruled most of the
region for the previous four centuries. Most of
those above invading and other “Arab” states had, in
turn, become Arab by the conquest, subjugation, and
forced Arabization of millions of native peoples who
survived earlier jihads in the wars of the Dar ul-Islam
against the Dar al-Harb...another point I feel a
need to stress repeatedly.
Similar stories could be told all over the
region...millions of native, non-Arab peoples,
within the power vacuum created by the collapse of
empire, seeing their own hopes for freedom and
independence in the new nationalist age swept away
on behalf of the Arab Nation. Some later fought
alongside Arabs against the Mandatory Powers...did
them little good after the French and the British
left the scene (one way or the other), however.
From Egypt, through North Africa into the Sudan, to
Lebanon, Iraqi and Syrian Kurdistan, and elsewhere,
scores of millions have all been forced to consent
to this forced Arabization process.
As Egypt’s most famous native “Uncle Tom” Copt, the
late President Sadat’s Foreign Minister Dr. Boutros
Boutros Ghali basically summed it up for Israel (as
well as all others) in an interview with an Israeli
author: if you want to be accepted in the
neighborhood, you have to consent to Arabization.
The post-1922 up to the current fight, therefore,
has been to create a second state for Arabs in
what’s left of “Palestine"--not a first...the Arabs’
22nd in total spread out across over six million
square miles of territory. And that state is
expected, by “moderates” willing to tell the West
what it wants to hear, as well as the more honest
Hamas types, to replace the sole state of the
Jews–not live peacefully along side it.
Back to the United Nations...
In 1947, another partition plan was presented which
would have divided the roughly 20% of the Mandate of
Palestine left after the creation of Transjordan in
half between Jews and Arabs.
Had Arabs accepted this, they would have wound up
with some 90% of the total original area.
They rejected this offer on the grounds that all was
part of the Dar ul-Islam and/or their “purely Arab
patrimony.” The rest is history.
Some things change, others never do. Israel’s fight
with Hamas, Fatah, and others today is the same as
it was back then.
Back to May, 1948...
The U.N. watched its newest child brutally attacked
upon birth. It did nothing to stop the onslaught and
only finally stepped in after the Jews turned the
tide of the battle.
Afraid that they would push the Arabs back even
further and take more of the non-apportioned
territory of the Mandate, the U.N. finally acted.
Keep in mind that, unlike Arab claims, these were
not “purely Arab” territories.
The armistice lines drawn up by the UN. in 1949
simply marked the point where hostilities were
stopped.
Amongst other things, they left Israel a mere
9-miles wide in some places, and not much more in
its strategic waist--where most of its population
and industry are
located. Many peole travel farther than that just to
go to work. It should not be a surprise, therefore,
that these became known as the Auschwitz Lines--a
constant invitation to Arabs to attack. The lines
were never expected to be Israel’s real borders, as
America’s own U.N. rep, Dr.Ralph Bunche, wrote about
himself.
Recall that as a result of the 1948 Arab assault,
Transjordan grabbed the non-apportioned west bank of
the Jordan River (where both Jews and Arabs had
roots, owned land, and were allowed to live). Now
holding both banks, it changed its name to Jordan
(since it now held territory from other parts of the
Mandate besides those across the river)--and made
all the land it now held Judenrein (Jew
free)--including east Jerusalem. Numerous age-old
synagogues were destroyed, ancient Jewish tombstones
were used to pave roads, build latrines, and so
forth. Only two nations recognized that illegal
seizure.
While Jordan thus emerged above, Pharaoh--who had
used Gaza to invade the land of the Jews for
thousands of years--once again grabbed that coastal
strip.
Note that during the time Jordan and Egypt held Gaza
and the West Bank (aka, Judea and Samaria, its real
name)--almost two decades--no one demanded the birth
of the Arabs’ second state in Palestine in those
areas. Not a peep from the United Nations either...
As another result of the Arab attempt to nip a
microscopic, resurrected Israel in the bud, two
refugee situations were created...another point that
needs to constantly be reemphasized.
The Arabs have continued to this day to thrust the
plight of their own refugees--created primariliy as
a result of their own actions--into everyone else’s
faces--people who were pawns (willingly or
unwillingly) of the Arabs’ own murderous schemes
that backfired. Scores of millions of non-Arab
peoples also became refugees as a result of wars
over the last century. Yet the folks who have
received the most aid have been the biggest whiners.
Arab refugees, right from the start, were made
virtual wards of the world--unlike all the others
above. The United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA)--whose
spokemen, right now, are villifying Israel over
Gaza--was created just to cater to these folks--most
of whom were newcomers themselves coming into the
land because of its economic development by the
Jews.
The U.N.’s predecessor, the League Of Nations
Permanent Mandates Commission, recorded numerous
Arabs crossing into the Mandate from the surrounding
Arab states. Many more slipped in through very
porous borders under cover of darkness and were
never recorded. And still many others arrived with
Muhammad Ali and son Ibrahim Pasha’s armies from
Egypt about fifty years or so earlier and never
left...all alleged “native Palestinians.” Hamas’s
virtual patron saint (for whom those rockets Gaza
has been blasting israel with are named as well as
Hamas’s “militant wing), Sheikh Izzedin al-Qassam,
was from Latakia, Syria. Arafat was born in Cairo.
Indeed, so many Arabs were recent arrivals
themselves into the Palestinian Mandate that UNRWA
had to adjust the very definition of “refugee” from
its prior meaning of persons normally and
traditionally resident to those who lived in the
Mandate for a minimum of only two years prior to
1948.
Now, keep in mind that for every Arab who was forced
to flee the fighting that Arabs started (after all,
how dare Jews want in one tiny, resurrected state
what Arabs demand for themselves in some two dozen
others), a Jewish refugee was forced to flee
“Arab"/Muslim lands into Israel and elsewhere...but
with no UNRWA set up to assist them. Why not?
UNRWA has been openly hostile to Israel from the
getgo. It has long allowed the promotion of
anti-Western and anti-Semitic attitudes among the
Arabs it serves, and has done little to help solve
the problem of their refugee status--unless giving
shelter and employment to those who would terrorize
and destroy their Jewish neighbor counts in his
regard.
Before Israel’s current round of fighting in Gaza,
back in 2004, UNRWA Commissioner-General Peter
Hansen told the Canadian Broadcasting Company “I am
sure that there are Hamas members on the UNRWA
payroll and I don’t see that as a crime.”
Solid evidence and documentation obtained from Arabs
on the spot have revealed that UNRWA has turned a
blind eye to Arabs setting up mortar and rocket
firing positions adjacent to U.N. schools,
hospitals, private homes, and so forth.
Additionally, in this latest round, Israel had solid
intelligence that Hamas leaders were hiding in the
basement of such a hospital.
Similarly, when Israel was forced to go after
Hizbullah in Lebanon in 2006, it turned out that the
U.N force there, UNIFIL, not only did not prevent
attacks on Israel but allowed Hizbullah to set up
its positions right next to UNIFIL units. After a
U.N. position got hit as a result, pictures made the
rounds showing just such a Hizbullah position right
next to a U.N. building. Furthermore, solid evidence
surfaced that UNIFIL members collaborated with
Hizbullah to enable the kidnaping of Israeli troops
from inside Israel proper-the move which started the
war in the first place.
Ahhh, the United Nations...Nice to know where many
millions of American tax dollars are going to, isn’t
it?!?!
Turning the clock back again, from 1948 to1956,
Israel was attacked repeatedly by Arabs using
Egyptian and Jordanian territories as their bases.
In 1956, when Egypt blockaded it at the Strait of
Tiran, Israel struck back hard. France and Great
Britain were peeved at Egypt’s Nasser as well for
nationalizing the Suez Canal, so the time was ripe.
In a lightening assault, Israel soon found itself on
the banks of the Suez Canal.
Before Western pressure forced it to withdraw--note
the inaction of the U.N. to stop Arab attacks on
Israel and so forth which provoked the Sinai
Campaign (sound familiar?)--Israel’s David
Ben-Gurion received assurances that if Egypt ever
played the same blockade game again,www.ekurd.net
it would be recognized
as a casus belli. This would become very important,
once again, in the not-too-distant future. A United
Nations Emergency Force was also set up in Gaza and
at the Strait of Tiran to supposedly prevent such
happenings again.
So, tell me please...what good is a fireman who, at
the first smell of smoke, disappears from sight?
In Spring 1967, Egypt’s Nasser must have been all
sugared up once again.
Pharaoh amassed 100,000 troops, but instead of
chariots, he positioned planes, tanks, artillery,
and so forth on Israel’s border, reinstated the
blockade, and ordered the U.N. force out of Gaza so
his tank divisions would have an open door.
Without a wink, the U.N. turned tail and
ran--leaving Israel, once again, all on its own.
Nasser, meanwhile, got other Arab nations to jump
aboard his own latter-day Final Solution bandwagon
as well. While Syria was up to its eyeballs in this
right from the start, others--like Jordan’s young
King Hussein--had to be lured into this a bit later.
Big mistake...
Well, as you probably know, things didn’t quite turn
out as Arabs planned...
In six days in June 1967, Israel destroyed several
Arab air forces, left hundreds of their tanks
smoldering, took thousands of prisoners, etc.and so
forth...Remember Ben-Gurion’s casus belli deal in
1956 regarding a renewal of blockade?
Oh yes--I almost forgot...
Israel also now found itself holding all of the
Sinai Peninsula (in which it developed oil fields,
established important air bases, and at last gained
a
little strategic
depth) up to the Suez Canal; in control of the
Strait from which it had been repeatedly blockaded;
on top of the Golan Heights, from which its farm
villages and fishermen on the Sea of Galilee had
been repeatedly attacked; in Gaza; and back in Judea
and Samaria--the “West Bank,” from which all Jews
were either previously slaughtered or later excluded
from as a result of Transjordan’s land grab in 1948.
Places like Hebron--where the Hebrew Patriarchs and
some of the matriarchs are buried--and elsewhere
once again saw Jews.
And in a rare moment (Divine guidance?), something
else next happened which proved to be not par for
the U.N.’s usual course.
After much argument, and thanks to America and Great
Britain--folks who also opposed Israel in the
past--the final draft of the U.N. document, UNSC
Resolution 242, which dealt with any future Israeli
withdrawal, was worded in a precise way which called
for the creation of secure and real borders to
replace Israel’s ‘49 Auschwitz lines. It also
allowed for a necessary revision of those borders in
order to undo–somewhat at least–the travesty of the
‘49 U.N.-imposed lines.
Here’s Britain’s Lord Caradon on 242...
It would have been wrong to demand that Israel
return to its positions of June 4, 1967, because
those positions were undesirable and artificial.
After all, they were just the places where the
soldiers of each side happened to be on the day the
fighting stopped in 1948. They were just armistice
lines. That’s why we didn’t demand that the Israelis
return to them.
President Ronald Reagan commented on this same
subject on September 1, 1982...
In the pre-1967 borders, Israel was barely 10-miles
wide… the bulk of Israel’s population within
artillery range of hostile armies. I am not about to
ask Israel to live that way again.
Regardless of the renewed pressure that will
undoubtedly be coming with the new American
President’s administration, Israel must insist upon
those territorial adjustments it was promised in
order to right an historical wrong. A fair
compromise must be demanded by Israel’s own new
leaders.
The State Department opposed Israel’s creation from
the start and has been usually hostile ever since.
Expect more of the same, if not worse, coming from
the Foggy Folks with an Obama Administration.
The Jews the new President appoints to work with him
are as reassuring on this matter as James Baker’s
stick it to the Jew of the Nations “Jew Boys” were
before--a good shield to deflect criticism later on
from Jews who really care. I truly hope I’m wrong
here...but doubt it. In fact, President Obama
apparently just loves Baker’s Jew Boy Dan Kurtzer--Foggy
Bottom’s Jew point man used to force the Jews in
Israel to ignore 242 and return to their previous
suicidal Auschwitz lines.
The new President had already sent his well-known,
anti-Israel friend and special envoy, Robert Malley
(raised in a family of anti-Zionists and Communists
who counted Yasir Arafat as a close friend), to
Lebanon’s slave master and Iran’s best buddy, Syria,
before he even took the oath of office.
Now, pray tell, what might that be all about?
Decades ago, Israel had already offered a retreat
from well over 90% of the Golan Heights to Syria in
return for a true peace...
.....’Twasn’t good enough for Iraq’s Saddam
Hussein’s twin butchers in Damascus, the Assad
boys–neither Papa nor Junior.
So, guess who and what’s gonna be offered up to try
to wean Syria away from Iran? The same folks whose
arms are going to be twisted even further than they
were already by Condoleezza Rice & Co. to believe
that Mahmud Abbas’s latter day Arafatian Fatahniks
are really the good cops. After all, President Bush
had already begun arming, training, funding, and
otherwise supporting those alleged doves of peace.
Trust me Jew of the Nations, to such folks you
should give away the store and bare the necks of
your kids...
Expect much more of the same (if not worse) with
President Obama, close friend and associate of
Rashid Khalidi and numerous other blatantly
anti-Israel folks. Louis Farakhan has called him the
messiah.
With a final return (for now) to the United Nations,
let’s just say that with Arab genocidal actions
being/having been waged against millions of Kurds
and black Africans, and Arab murder and subjugation
being waged against millions of Copts, Jews,
Amazighen/Berbers, and others, the only thing that
the United Nations seems capable of doing is
vilifying Israel and placing it continuously under
the high power lens of moral scrutiny for its
determination to survive and defend itself despite
the United Nations’ indifference. Indeed,www.ekurd.net
most of all of the
latter’s condemnations have been aimed solely at
Israel.
Perhaps it’s time for Israel to seriously consider
withdrawing from the United Nauseating Nations or,
at the very least, make sure that it quickly elects
a new generation of leaders who will know how to
stand their ground and demand the fair territorial
compromises Israel is entitled to and must have
regardless of who’s tightening the screws.
Copyright by Gerald A. Honigman. eKurd.net,
January 25, 2009. You may reach the
author via email at: honigman6 (at) msn.com .
Gerald A. Honigman is a Florida educator who has
done extensive doctoral studies in Middle Eastern
Affairs. He has created and conducted counter-Arab
propaganda programs for college youth, has lectured
on numerous campuses and other platforms, and has
publicly debated many Arab spokesmen. His articles
and op-eds have been published in dozens of
newspapers, magazines, academic journals and
websites all around the world. Visit his
website at
http://www.geraldahonigman.com/
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My Friends, Dare To Think
About What The Future Could Be… 2.3.2008
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Hamas, Fatah, & The
Missing Kurdish Dual Track. By Gerald A. Honigman
31.12.2007
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The 1002nd Arabian
Night...By Gerald A. Honigman 4.11.2007
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Turks, Kurds, and Jews. By
Gerald A. Honigman 24.10.2007
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President Bollinger? Keep
Your Promise. By Gerald A. Honigman 24.9.2007
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Imagine For One Moment. By
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Fall Foolishness. By Gerald A. Honigman
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