Who come first. The Jews or the Muslims? The Israelite or the Palestinians? Palestinians are the newest of all the people on the face of the earth, and began to exist in a single day it is unique in the whole history of mankind as it is witness by Walid Shoebat, a former PLO terrorist that acknowledges the lie he was fighting for and the truth he was fighting against: “Why is it that on June 4th 1967 I was a Jordanian and overnight I became a Palestinian?” “We did not particularly mind Jordanian rule.” “The teachings of the destruction of Israel were a definite part of the curriculum, but we consider ourselves Jordanian until the Jews return to Jerusalem. Then all the sudden we were Palestinians, they removed the star from the Jordanian flag and all at once we had a Palestinian flag”. “When I finally realized the lies and myths I was taught, it is my duty as a righteous person to speak out.” “Indeed, there is no such thing as like a Palestinian people, or a Palestinian culture, or a Palestinian language, or a Palestinian history.” There has never been any Palestinian state neither any Palestinian archaeological find nor coinage. The present-day “Palestinians” are an Arab people, with Arab culture, Arabic language and Arab history. They were called Jordanians (British invention, as there has never been any people known as “Jordanians”), and after the 6 day war in which Israel utterly defeated the coalition of nine Arab states and took legitimate possession of Judea and Samaria, the Arab dwellers in those regions decided upon the creation of a fifth column population, the creation of the Palestinian people. To justify their claim to Judea, the Palestinian leaders claimed two contradictory lineages from ancient peoples that inhabited The Promised Land: the Canaanites and the Philistines. The Canaanites are historically acknowledged as the first inhabitants of the Land, before the Hebrews settled there. The correct geographic name of the Land of Judea is Canaan, not “Palestine”. They were composed by different tribes that may be distinguished in two main groups: the Northern or Coastland Canaanites and Southern or Mountain Canaanites. The Northern Canaanites settled along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea from the southeastern side of the Gulf of Iskenderun to the proximities of the Gulf of Haifa. Their main cities were Tzur, Tzidon, Gebal(Byblos), Arvad, Ugarit, and are better known in history by their Greek name Phoenicians, but they called themselves “Kana’ana” or “Kinachnu”. They did not found any unified kingdom but were organized in self-ruled cities. Their language was adopted from their Semitic neighbours, the Arameans, and was closely related to Hebrew (not Arabic). So similar were the languages that Phoenicians and Israelites did not need interpreters to understand each other. They followed the same destiny as Israel and fell under Assyrian rule, then Babylonian, Persian, Macedonian, Seleucian and Roman. Throughout history the Phoenicians intermarried with different peoples. During the Islamic expansion they were arabized, yet, never completely assimilated, and their present-day state is Lebanon, erroneously regarded as an “Arab” country, a label that the Lebanese people reject. The only mention of the term Arabic in the Lebanese constitution refers to the official language of the state which does not mean that the Lebanese people are Arabs in the same way. The official language of the United States is English but this does not qualify the Americans as British. The so-called Palestinians are not Lebanese (although some of them came from Syrian-occupied Lebanon), therefore they are not Phoenicians(Northern Canaanites), they are despised in Lebanon as “refugees”. The Southern Canaanites dwelled in the Mountain region from the Golan southwards, on both sides of the Yarden(Joran) and along the Mediterranean coast from the Gulf of Haifa to Yafo. They were composed by various tribes of different socks: besides the proper Canaanites (Phoenicians). Amorites, Hittites and Hurrian peoples like the Yevusites, Hivvites and Horites, all of them never constituted an unified, organized state but kept within the tribal alliance system. When the first Hebrews arrived in Canaan they shared the land but did not intermarry due to a ban on exogamy. Nevertheless, eleven of the twelve tribes inter-married with Canaanite woman(Joseph married an Egyptian), and since then, the Tribes began to mix with the local inhabitants. After the Exodus, when the Israelites conquered the Land, there were some wars between the Canaanites throughout the period of (Judges). Canaanites are seldom mentioned during the King’s period, usually in reference to their heathen customs introduced among the Israelites, as a good portion was already assimilated. When the Assyrians overran the Kingdom of Israel, they did not leave any Canaanite aside. The same happened when the Babylonians overthrew the Kingdom of Judah. Therefore, the only people that can trace back a lineage to the ancient Canaanites are the Judeans, not the Palestinians, as Canaanites did not exist any longer after the 8th century BCE. It is from the term “Philistines” that the name “Palestinians” has been taken, and the only similarity between both is that they are both invaders from distant lands. That is precisely the meaning of their name, that is not an ethnic denomination but an adjective. Peleshet, from the verb “pelesh”, “dividers”, “penetrators” or “invaders”. The Philistines were a confederation of non-Semitic peoples coming from Crete, the Aegean Islands and Asia Minor also known as the Sea Peoples. The main tribes were Tzekelesh, Shardana, Akhaiusha, Danauna, Tzakara, Masa or Meshwesh, Lukki, Dardana, Tursha, Keshesh or Karkisha, Labu and Irven. The original homeland of the group that ruled the Philistine federation, namely the “Pelesati”, was the Island of Crete. When the Minoic civilization collapsed, also the Minoic culture disappeared from Crete, as invaders from Greece took over control of the island. These ancient Cretans arrived in Southern Canaan and were known as “Pelestim” and “Keretim” by Hebrews and Canaanites. Their first settlement seems to have been Gaza, whose original name was “Minoah”, a clear reference to the fallen Minoic kingdom. They also invaded Egypt and were defeated by Pharaoh Ramose 3 in the 12th century BCE. Philistine was organized in city-states, being the most important the Pentepolis: Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath and Ekron. Their territory was close to the Mediterranean coast, a little longer and broader than the present-day “Gaza Strip” not the whole Judah, they never reached Hevron, Jerusalem or Jericho.Those Sea Peoples that invaded Egypt were expelled towards other Mediterranean lands and did not evolve into any Arab people but disappeared as distinguishable groups in Roman times. Those dwelling in Canaan were defeated by King David and reduced to insignificance. The remaining Philistines still dwelling in Gaza were subdued by Sargon 2 of Assyria and after that time, they disappeared from history, they are no longer mentioned since the return of the Judean exiles from Babylon. There is not one single person in the world who may be able to prove Philistine lineage, and if the Palestinians are truly Philistine, then their true homeland would be the island of Crete, not Judea or Samaria. So why is Judea now called Palestine? In the 2nd century CE, the last stand of the remnants of the Judea against the Roman Empire ended with the well known event of the Siege of Masada. The Land where these things happened was until then the province known as Judea, and there is no mention of any place called “Palestine” before this time. Roman Emperor Hadrian was utterly upset with the Judean Nation and wanted to erase the name of Judah from the face of the earth so that there would be no memory of the country that belonged to that rebel people. He decided to replace the denomination of that Roman province and resorted to ancient history in order to find a name that might appear appropriate, and found out that an extinct people that was unknown in Roman times, called “Philistines”. Therefore according to Latin spelling he invented the new name “Palaestina”, a name that would be also hateful. He did so with explicit purpose of effacing any trace of Judean history. In fact the name “Falastin” that Arabs today use for “Palestine” is not an Arabic name, but adopted and adapted from the Latin Palaestina. How can an Arab people have a Western name instead of one in their own language? Because the use of the term Palestinian for an Arab group is only a modern political creation without any historic or ethnic ground. -Joseph Farah, “Myths of the Middle East”- “There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians, Syrian, Iraqi, etc. Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 percent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of one 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… no matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough.” -Auni Vey Abdul-Hadi, Syrian Arab leader to British Peel Commission, 1937- “There is no such country as Palestine. Palestine is a term the Zionist invented. There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria. Palestine is alien to us. -Professor Philip Hitti, Arab historian, 1946- “There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not.” -Representant of Saudi Arabia at the United Nations, 1956- “It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but Southern Syria.” 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 655 CE hardly lasted, as such, 22 years.” – Zuheir Muhsin, late Military Department head of the PLO and member of its Executive Council (Dutch daily Trouw, March 1977)- “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.” -Syrian dictator Hafez Assad to the PLO leader Yassir Arafat- “You do not represent Palestine as much as we do. Never forget this one point: There is no such thing as a Palestinian People, there is no Palestinian entity, there is only Syria. You are an integral part of the Syrian people, Palestine is an integral part of Syria. Therefore it is we, the Syrian authorities, who are the true representatives of the Palestinian people.” But with the news of a two state solution we must ask ourselves how long have the invaders been in the land? According to the United Nations weird standards, any person that spent TWO YEARS in Palestine before 1948, with or without proof, is a “Palestinian”, as well as all the descendants of that person. Before then, the Promised Land was utterly desolate. -Mark Twain, “The Innocents Abroad”, 1867- There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent [valley of Jezreel] — not for 30 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 moldering 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… -Gunner Edward Webbe, Palestine Exploration Fund- “Nothing there is to be scene but a little of the old walls, which is yet remaining and all the rest is grass, moss and weeds much like to a piece of rank or moist ground.” -Count Constantine Francois Volney, XVIII century French author and historian- “Palestine is a ruined and desolate land.” -The report of the British Royal Commission, 1913- “The area was under populated 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… Schools did not exist… The rate of infant mortality was very high… The western part, toward the sea, was almost a desert… Many ruins were scattered over the area, as owing to the prevalence of malaria, many villages were deserted by their inhabitants.” Perhaps the biggest lie that is being promoted is that the “Palestinian refugees” issue: the allegedly “native” population that was “evicted” by Israelis. Actually, in 1948 the so-called refugees were encouraged to leave Israel by Arab leaders, who promised to purge the land of Jews. Almost 70 percent of them left without having ever seen a single Israeli soldier. So what does it all mean? The Palestinian “State” is a recent social construct created by Arab peoples (possibly Arab Brotherhood) as a military/political system for the purpose of deflecting attention away from the serious social issues plaguing their poorly run countries or to set up the world for a conflict like the kinds ever seen before. Perhaps you did not know, now you know.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 04:05:07 +0000
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