The “Palestinian People” an Historical Invention not a Reality

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TEST FOR BEING A COLONIZER
(Ryan Bellerose - Aboriginal Metis )
1: Did Jews force their language on other peoples? NO.2: Did Jews force their religion on others? NO. 3: Did Jews claim and subsume others sacred sites ? NO
4: Do Jews deny people the right to self-determination on ancestral historical Jewish lands that those people conquered? NO!
5: Did Jews conquer a large percentage of the known world? NO !
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What ever already existed in Judaism that is found “else where “ is originally Jewish :
"AND TO KING DAVID KING OF ISRAEL - :MUSLIMS MADE ISRAEL’S KING A PROPHET OF ISLAM - PROPHET DAUD - WE GAVE THE BOOK OF PSALMS " ( QURAN )
Zion translates to Jerusalem : Zion (Hebrew: צִיּוֹן‎‎ Tsiyyon), also transliterated Sion, Sayon, Syon, Tzion or Tsion, is a place name often used as a synonym for Jerusalem.
It commonly referred to a specific mountain near Jerusalem (Mount Zion), on which stood a Jebusite fortress of the same name that was conquered by David and was named the City of David.
The term Tzion came to designate the area of Jerusalem where the fortress stood, and later became a metonym for Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, the city of Jerusalem and "the World to Come", the Jewish understanding of the hereafter."
'Real Dreamers " want to go home :
The only refuges in the world still wanting to be home are Jews -
Institutional Anti-Semitism(UNRWA /UN/EU/BDS) denies them the right to their ancestral lands :
Real Dreamers are refugees who want to go back home rather than to be in a strange land !
"Rivers of Babylon" is a Rastafarian song written and recorded by Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton of the Jamaican reggae group The Melodians in 1970. The lyrics are adapted from the texts of Psalms 19 and 137 in the Hebrew Bible.
The Melodians' original version of the song appeared in the soundtrack album of the 1972 movie The Harder They Come, making it internationally known. The song was popularized in Europe by the 1978 Boney M. cover version, which was awarded a platinum disc and is one of the top ten all-time best-selling singles in the UK.
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down Ye-eah we wept, when we remembered Zion
The Torah predicts that the Jews will be expelled from the Land of Israel, which will then become barren and desolate, but that the Jews will later return to Israel. Both parts of this prediction fly in the face of the norms of world history.
Rivers of Babylon - “denied” in Ramallah:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Oim-AMr8lg
Zionism : Jews yearning to be home held captive in a strange land “:
Why Is Jeremiah Called the "Weeping Prophet" – because of the tears that ran from his eyes as his people the Jews were held captive by the Babylonian Empire – wanting to go back home to rebuild their Temple in Jerusalem – it was King Cyrus of Persia / Iran who freed the Jews and all other slaves of the Babylonians to go home – Zionism – Jewish rights to be home dating to Cyrus- inscribed in the Cyrus Cylinders currently returned to Iran from the British Museum 2010 .
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“The Forgotten Jewish Refugees”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH8RL2XRr48
ISLAMIC EMPIRE : TEST FOR BEING A COLONIZER
(Ryan Bellerose - Aboriginal Metis )
1: Did Muslims force their language on other peoples ?
2: Did Muslims force their religion on others?
3: Did Muslims claim and subsume others sacred sites ?
4: Do Muslims deny people the right to self-determination on ancestral historical Jewish lands that those people conquered?
5: Did Muslims conquer a large percentage of the known world?
In 630, Muhammad led 10,000 Muslim soldiers into Mecca and turned the pagans’ most prominent spot, the Ka’aba, into the Masjid al-Haram Mosque.
In 632, Muhammad passes away .
In 634, Rightly Guided Caliph Umar conquered Syria and turned the Christians’ most prominent spot, the Church of Job, famous for being visited by Saint Silva in the fourth century, into the Mosque of Job.
In 637, Caliph Umar conquered Hebron and turned the second-most prominent spot in Judaism, the Cave of the Patriarchs, into the Ibrahim Mosque. (This was repeated by Saladin in 1188.)
In 638, Muslim generals Amr ibn al-As and Khalid ibn al-Walid conquered Gaza and turned the prominent fifth-century Byzantine church into the Great Mosque of Gaza.
In 638, Caliph Umar conquered Jerusalem.
In 691, Caliph Al-Malik ordered the _Dome of the Rock_ built on the most prominent spot in Judaism, the Temple Mount, followed by Caliph Al-Walid building the Al-Aqsa Mosque there in 705 some 80 years after the death of Mohammad .
The Al Aqsa Mosque is not mentioned in the Quran because it was built after the Quran was written :
Jerusalem and Al Aqsa are not mentioned in the Quran because Muslims invaded and conquered Jerusalem after Mummamed died - 632 - the "furthest Mosque -Al Aqsa - did not exist during the life of Muhammad.
The Night Journey -
Muslims make no mention of Jerusalem in their liturgy or acknowledge it in customs or rituals. When they prostrate themselves during prayer they face Mecca, with their backs to the Temple Mount. Jerusalem, or Al Quds as they call it, is not mentioned once in the Quran, while there are 161 references to it in the New Testament, and a stunning 823 in the Hebrew Bible.
From the day that King David took the Jebusite fortress and made it his capital over three thousand years ago Jerusalem has occupied the place of highest esteem in the thoughts and passions of the Jewish people.
" Jerusalem (or al Quds) is not mentioned by name anywhere in the Qur'an, it is identified in various Hadith.
The first verse refers to Mohammed being taken from the 'Sacred Mosque' to the 'Furthest Mosque':
Zion -- Jerusalem - David King of Israel - 970 BCE - 1020 BCE -
There is no Al Aqsa in the Quran --they speak of Muhammed being taken from the 'Sacred Mosque' to the 'Furthest Mosque----
If the "Furthest Mosque " was in Jerusalem , was the 3rd holiest , and had a name Mohammad would have known it was in Jerusalem and it was called Al Aqsa ----
Muhammad (Arabic: محمد‎‎; pronounced [muħammad];[n 2] c. 570 CE – 8 June 632 CE) is the prophet and founder of Islam – Mohammad was not alive in the year 680 CE - In fact, there was no tradition identifying the Temple Mount with the “Furthest Mosque” until eighty-three years after Muhammad’s death. 
In 680 CE, a dissident leader in Mecca revolted against the Umayyad dynasty, and pilgrimage to Mecca was shut down.
The Umayyads responded by attempting to substitute Jerusalem as a rival to Mecca. Among other things, they built the Dome of the Rock over the site of the Holy Temple, and later constructed a second mosque on the Temple Mount and named it Al Aqsa, thereby supplying the missing mosque for this legend. Jerusalem was exalted and Al Aqsa created for political expediency.
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https://en.mida.org.il/2017/11/09/arab-historian-admits-no-palestinian-people/
Arab Historian Admits there is No Palestinian People
Judith Bergman |  09/11/2017 
When the Ottoman rule ended, there was no Palestinian national identity or political borders. It was all made up later. Arabs themselves say so, but the west isn’t listening
The founding of Tel Aviv 1909 (GPO)

One of the biggest, most stubborn and costliest untruths of our time is the notion that the jihad waged by Arabs in the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Gaza against Jews in Israel is a national struggle of an indigenous people for independence.

No matter the facts, the lie persists to the tune of billions of dollars in international aid and political prestige, which makes it increasingly difficult for anyone involved to admit that the whole thing is nothing more than a propaganda stunt.

Unlike the fairy tale of ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’, everyone pretends to be blind and deaf when it is pointed out that the emperor is naked. In fact, if the emperor himself were to stand up and yell, ‘I am naked folks, go home!’ the crowd would go on complimenting his non-existent garments.

Last week the naked emperor did just that:

“Before the Balfour Promise, when the Ottoman rule [1517-1917] ended, Palestine’s political borders as we know them today did not exist, and there was nothing called a Palestinian people with a political identity as we know today”, historian Abd Al-Ghani admitted on official PA TV on November 1.

“Since Palestine’s lines of administrative division stretched from east to west and included Jordan and southern Lebanon, and like all peoples of the region [the Palestinians] were liberated from the Turkish rule and immediately moved to colonial rule, without forming a Palestinian people’s political identity.”

In 1917, says this Arab historian on official PA TV, there was no such thing as a Palestinian people. This statement amounts to saying that the whole narrative of an ‘indigenous Palestinian people’ was made up at a later point in time.

As Hamas Minister of the Interior and of National Security Fathi Hammad speaking on Al-Hekma TV said in March 2012: “Brothers, half of the Palestinians are Egyptians and the other half are Saudis. Who are the Palestinians? We have many families called Al-Masri, whose roots are Egyptian. Egyptian! They may be from Alexandria, from Cairo, from Dumietta, from the North, from Aswan, from Upper Egypt. We are Egyptians…”

There is a reason, why the “Palestinian National Museum” is empty of historical artifacts.

The Arab historian’s admission corroborates the observations of 19th century travelers to the region, who notably had no specific political agenda when they visited, unlike so many visitors to Israel today:

”Outside the gates of Jerusalem, we saw indeed no living object, heard no living sound”, wrote French poet Alphonse de Lamartine about his visit in 1835.

”The country is in a considerable degree empty of inhabitants and therefore its greatest need is that of a body of population.” wrote British Consul James Finn in his 1857 description of the Holy Land.

”Palestine sits in a sackcloth and ashes. Over it broods the spell of a curse that withered its fields and fettered its energies. …Palestine is desolate and unlovely….It is a hopeless dreary, heartbroken land.” wrote American author Mark Twain in his description of his visit in 1867.

Nevertheless, the Arab propaganda machine gets away with publishing fantastic falsehoods, such as this one on the Palestinian Authority’s tourism website: “With a history that envelops more than one million years, Palestine has played an important role in human civilization. The crucible of prehistoric cultures, it is where settled society, the alphabet, religion, and literature developed, and would become a meeting place for diverse cultures and ideas that shaped the world we know today”.

The international community not only approves of these falsehoods, it happily pays for them.

Historian Abd Al-Ghani’s declaration on PA TV was a historic, highly newsworthy admission that ought to have made the headlines everywhere, considering the importance the issue is given by political leaders, diplomats, the media and other establishment figures all over the world.

After all, if the Arabs themselves admit that the ‘Palestinian people’ is an invented entity, should not the consequence be that the countless UN projects, billions of dollars in international aid, and the endless campaigns against Israel cease and be used for more noble purposes?

The answer is yes, but no one is paying attention.

We live in a post-factual world. Facts no longer have any currency, unlike feelings and ideological posturing. The truth has been reduced to a troublesome inconvenience and if it happens to stare you in the face, nothing could be easier than closing your eyes or simply looking away.
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Judith Bergman is a columnist and political analyst

The “Palestinian People” an Historical Invention not a Reality
By Emet m' Tsiyon - 9 Elul 5778 – August 20, 20180
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{Originally posted to the Emet m’Tsiyon website}
The notion of a “Palestinian people,” that never existed in all history, has been floating around in public discourse throughout the world since 1964. It was on 1 January of that year that the “palestine liberation organization” [PLO] was founded in Cairo. So you might say that the establishment of the PLO was what established the previously unknown “palestinian people.”
A second founding ceremony and conclave for the PLO took place later that year in eastern Jerusalem, then under Jordanian occupation. The Ambassador Hotel, where this second founding meeting took place, was very near the location of the former, pre-1948, Jewish Quarters of Shimon haTsadiq, Nahalat Shimon and Siebenbergen Houses from which the Jewish inhabitants were driven out by Arab irregular forces in December 1947 and January 1948. These Arab irregular forces were under the command of Abd al-Qader Husayni, nephew of the notorious Haj Amin al-Husayni [Husseini]. Thus the first refugees in the Israeli war of independence [1947-1949] were in fact Jews driven out by Arabs. Likewise, the first refugees in the war who could not go home after it were Jews from the quarters mentioned above.

In and around the year 1948, Arabs nationalists generally and Palestinian Arabs in particular, took a pan-Arab stance, declaring themselves to be proud Arabs. There was little talk if any in those years of a supposedly distinct “palestinian people,” somehow fuzzily connected to the Arabs but somehow separate and different at the same time. That at any rate was the usual narrative in the Western media, although the PLO itself, in its charter, explicitly stated in its first article:

Article 1: Palestine is the homeland [watan or fatherland] of the Palestinian Arab people and an integral part of the great Arab homeland, and the people of Palestine is a part of the Arab nation [qawm or ummah].

The foregoing quote from the PLO charter is enough to tell us that there really is no “palestinian people” distinct from the Arabs but that the Palestinian Arabs are a territorial section or subdivision of the Arab nation, as the PLO itself says here in Article One of its charter.

The good news is that despite all the flim-flammery in the media over the last 54 years to convince the world public that there is a “palestinian people,” a number of historians, political scientists and other scholars have debunked the fake notion of this people that never was. These scholars have not only been Jews and other non-Arabs but include Arabs as well. In fact, Rashid Khalidi, a friend of former US president Barack Obama has written this, at least in his academic publications, whereas he is usually careful to lie in his political pronouncements to the media. For his confirmation that there never was a “palestinian people,” an article by him in the International Journal of Middle East Studies (1988). Another Arab historian, Abd al-Ghani, made the same point on official PA [palestinian authority] TV of all places:

“Before the Balfour Promise, when the Ottoman rule [1517-1917] ended, Palestine’s political borders as we know them today did not exist, and there was nothing called a Palestinian people with a political identity as we know today”, historian Abd Al-Ghani admitted on official PA TV on November 1 [2017].
[Abd al-Ghani is also saying that the country sometimes called “palestine” in the West along with Holy Land and other names did not exist as any kind of territorial or administrative entity under Ottoman rule, nor for that matter, under the previous Mamluk Empire ]
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In 1917, says this Arab historian on official PA TV, there was no such thing as a Palestinian people. This statement amounts to saying that the whole narrative of an ‘indigenous Palestinian people’ was made up at a later point in time.

See the article by Judith Bergman on the MIDA site. Link here https://en.mida.org.il/2017/11/09/arab-historian-admits-no-palestinian-people/


https://en.mida.org.il/2017/11/09/arab-historian-admits-no-palestinian-people/
Arab Historian Admits there is No Palestinian People
Judith Bergman |  09/11/2017 
When the Ottoman rule ended, there was no Palestinian national identity or political borders. It was all made up later. Arabs themselves say so, but the west isn’t listening
The founding of Tel Aviv 1909 (GPO)

One of the biggest, most stubborn and costliest untruths of our time is the notion that the jihad waged by Arabs in the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Gaza against Jews in Israel is a national struggle of an indigenous people for independence.

No matter the facts, the lie persists to the tune of billions of dollars in international aid and political prestige, which makes it increasingly difficult for anyone involved to admit that the whole thing is nothing more than a propaganda stunt.

Unlike the fairy tale of ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’, everyone pretends to be blind and deaf when it is pointed out that the emperor is naked. In fact, if the emperor himself were to stand up and yell, ‘I am naked folks, go home!’ the crowd would go on complimenting his non-existent garments.

Last week the naked emperor did just that:

“Before the Balfour Promise, when the Ottoman rule [1517-1917] ended, Palestine’s political borders as we know them today did not exist, and there was nothing called a Palestinian people with a political identity as we know today”, historian Abd Al-Ghani admitted on official PA TV on November 1.

“Since Palestine’s lines of administrative division stretched from east to west and included Jordan and southern Lebanon, and like all peoples of the region [the Palestinians] were liberated from the Turkish rule and immediately moved to colonial rule, without forming a Palestinian people’s political identity.”

In 1917, says this Arab historian on official PA TV, there was no such thing as a Palestinian people. This statement amounts to saying that the whole narrative of an ‘indigenous Palestinian people’ was made up at a later point in time.

As Hamas Minister of the Interior and of National Security Fathi Hammad speaking on Al-Hekma TV said in March 2012: “Brothers, half of the Palestinians are Egyptians and the other half are Saudis. Who are the Palestinians? We have many families called Al-Masri, whose roots are Egyptian. Egyptian! They may be from Alexandria, from Cairo, from Dumietta, from the North, from Aswan, from Upper Egypt. We are Egyptians…”

There is a reason, why the “Palestinian National Museum” is empty of historical artifacts.

The Arab historian’s admission corroborates the observations of 19th century travelers to the region, who notably had no specific political agenda when they visited, unlike so many visitors to Israel today:

”Outside the gates of Jerusalem, we saw indeed no living object, heard no living sound”, wrote French poet Alphonse de Lamartine about his visit in 1835.

”The country is in a considerable degree empty of inhabitants and therefore its greatest need is that of a body of population.” wrote British Consul James Finn in his 1857 description of the Holy Land.

”Palestine sits in a sackcloth and ashes. Over it broods the spell of a curse that withered its fields and fettered its energies. …Palestine is desolate and unlovely….It is a hopeless dreary, heartbroken land.” wrote American author Mark Twain in his description of his visit in 1867.

Nevertheless, the Arab propaganda machine gets away with publishing fantastic falsehoods, such as this one on the Palestinian Authority’s tourism website: “With a history that envelops more than one million years, Palestine has played an important role in human civilization. The crucible of prehistoric cultures, it is where settled society, the alphabet, religion, and literature developed, and would become a meeting place for diverse cultures and ideas that shaped the world we know today”.

The international community not only approves of these falsehoods, it happily pays for them.

Historian Abd Al-Ghani’s declaration on PA TV was a historic, highly newsworthy admission that ought to have made the headlines everywhere, considering the importance the issue is given by political leaders, diplomats, the media and other establishment figures all over the world.

After all, if the Arabs themselves admit that the ‘Palestinian people’ is an invented entity, should not the consequence be that the countless UN projects, billions of dollars in international aid, and the endless campaigns against Israel cease and be used for more noble purposes?

The answer is yes, but no one is paying attention.

We live in a post-factual world. Facts no longer have any currency, unlike feelings and ideological posturing. The truth has been reduced to a troublesome inconvenience and if it happens to stare you in the face, nothing could be easier than closing your eyes or simply looking away.
____________________
Judith Bergman is a columnist and political analyst