The Real Truth Behind the Rioting in Jerusalem
Posted on October 27, 2009
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Arab American journalist, Joseph Fara, writes:
Truth about the Middle East
by Joseph FarahI’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 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.
I can’t help but wonder why all these Palestinians suddenly discovered their national identity after Israel won the war. Simple answer, gentle reader, it is a great way to de-legitimize the despised Jooz. And the hypocritical West bought it all with nary a sound in protest.
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 Jews, 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.
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 Jews, 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 truth, gentle reader is that there is/there was no “Palestinian people” historically, unless you mean the name given to the area and its JEWISH population by the Romans. Fact remains that for a couple of thousands of years, antisemites would taunt the Jews by telling them to “Go back to Palestine!”
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.
There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. 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.
Fact remains that most of the “Palestinians” arrived in the area (which already had an indigenous Jewish majority dating back to biblical times, though augmented during the height of the Spanish Inquisition) after 1920, when France formed the entities called Syria and Lebanon. The Syrians wanted to flood the area with their own to later claim the land as part of Greater Syria. Winston Churchill spoke about it, in his writings, extensively.
Before Churchill wrote on the subject, Mark Twain visited the Holy Land – in the 19th century – and described it as a barren, impoverished land with a Jewish majority.
What about Islam’s holy sites? 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 [Haram es Sharif] 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? 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 that’s 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.
And yet the western world, for the sake of oil, will deny anything about the despised Joo’s history, even if that means Christianity’s own premises are put in doubt! Have they forgotten that Jerusalem is the holiest site (not the questionable third!) to Judaism and Christianity? Do they care?
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 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?
Heyyy, Israel has no known oil deposits, the Jooz have always been despised throughout Europe! Here’s a chance to get rid of a burdensome lot! Got a problem with that?!?!?
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 name.
The solution can only come about when the lies are exposed, when the West stops bowing and kowtowing to Arab oil. The solution won’t come about just because an American President shamelessly curtsies to an Arab despot, regardless of what holy titles the latter chooses to give himself! In fact that simple bowing only encourages the intransigence, the intolerance, the lies.
For two thousand years the despised Joo lived, prayed, cried, hoped and died with the word “Yerushalayim” (Jerusalem) on his lips. No Muslim myth, no Western hypocrisy, no historical revisionism will disengage the Jew from his patrimony this time around. NEVER AGAIN!!!
Chaim
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Actually the “far away mosque” was thought to be in Jedda until Suleiman made up that Jerusalem was the site of the Prophet’s (PBUH) last step. After the crusades the common thought went back to Jedda until the conferences in Europe dividing the Middle East and creating the states. Then, Jerusalem was again the third most holy site.
Sorry, I meant Salah Ad-Din not Suleiman.
Also, even the first incarnation of the mosque was in 702, and it was not even a mosque at that time. The mosque was not build anywhere near Mohammad’s (PBUH) lifetime but there was one in Jedda.
You might as well ask why Jews suddenly began to want to be a nation after the Zionists began to agitate. Many Jews were against the Zionists and there was no significant movement to be a nation. The exact same argument can be made for the Israeli nationalist mythmaking,which is in full swing and documented. Some of the facts are misrepresented in this article, beside missing a lot of things out.
I think that Palestinians and Jews should interact much more than they do, and strategise how to live together, but this kind of article is not the way to go. It just continues the rift.
The Arabs cannot understand each other outside of classical Arabic because of regional variations. The article’s arguments about a Palestinian language are so stupid, it is like saying there is no South African language. The 20th century was when many groups, not only the Jews and Palestinians, wanted to create their own national identity. I can pick a point in time and argue from there that the Jews came from Iraq, there is little archaeological evidence for a massive Jewish presence, and so on. Let’s deal with what is there now, and the fact that unless the Palestinians have a means to a livlihood and a future the wars there will only escalate, with the weapons, and the US will be involved when it has no reason to be, because of its inability to be impartial and resolve the issues. The money we spend on Israel and Egypt should go to building infrastructure in Pakistan and Afghanistan, there lie our current US national interests.
I think that Palestinians and Jews should interact much more than they do, and strategise how to live together
I wholeheartedly agree!
You are right, the biblical Abraham came from what is today Iraq to what was then known as Canaan. There are no Canaanites today to make a case for their land, however. There is little archaeological evidence for a massive Jewish presence, really?!?!?!? Where have YOU been hiding?!? Why was it necessary, then, for the Palestinians to destroy and discard archeological artifacts when they build an underground Mosque on the Temple Mount in what was universally known as Solomon’s Stables by every archeologist (Jew or otherwise) in the area.
Billions have been donated by the West, while fellow Arab nations have barely delivered their promised millions. According to PA Prime Minister Salim Fayyad that money has mostly vanished! Had the moneys been used for the intended purposes there would have been many, many jobs available and the PA would have made a very attractive area for international development!
Jordanians, Syrians and Lebanese speak almost the same dialect of the Arab language with nary a difference. The fact remains that the “Palestinian” identity only came into sudden existence after dem Jooz in that Zionist Entity took the West Bank back after loosing it in 1948 and the 1949 Armistice Lines.
but this kind of article is not the way to go, well… history – truth – has a nasty habit of being inconvenient and inconsiderate far too often for some.