Fw: A little something to think about....
HOYT D. F. SPARKS
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2024 12:39
To: DAniel Sparks <cowbo...@hotmail.com>; Hoyt Sparks <hoyts...@hotmail.com>
Subject: A little something to think about....
The truth about the Palestinians is that before the 1960s, there was no such thing as a "Palestinian" people. They were invented as a propaganda weapon against Israel.
In 1948, the nascent state of Israel defeated forces from Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Transjordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen that had been determined to destroy it utterly. The jihad against it continued, but it held firm, defeating Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon again in the Six-Day War in 1967, and Egypt and Syria yet again in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. In winning these victories against enormous odds, Israel won the admiration of the free world, leading to the largest-scale and most audacious application in Islamic history of Muhammad’s dictum “War is deceit.”
In order to destroy the impression of the tiny Jewish state facing enormous Muslim Arab foes and prevailing, the Soviet KGB (the Soviet Committee for State Security) developed the fiction of an even smaller people, the “Palestinians,” menaced by a well-oiled and ruthless Israeli war machine.
In 134 AD, the Romans had expelled the Jews from Judea after the Bar Kokhba revolt and renamed the region "Palestine." The Romans had plucked this name from the Bible; it was the name of the Israelites’ ancient enemies, the Philistines. But never did the term “Palestinian” refer to anything but a region — not to a people or an ethnicity. The original Philistines were from the island of Crete in the Aegean Sea. The Arabs who refer to themselves as "Palestinian" are not related to the Philistines. And Islam did not appear until seven centuries after the Roman occupation of Judea.
In the 1960s, however, the KGB and Hajj Amin al-Husseini’s nephew Yasir Arafat created both these allegedly oppressed people and the instrument of their freedom — the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
Ion Mihai Pacepa, who had served as acting chief of Cold War-era Communist Romania’s spy service later revealed what happened:
"…The PLO Was Dreamt Up By The KGB, Which Had A Penchant For “Liberation” Organizations. There Was The National Liberation Army Of Bolivia, Created By The KGB In 1964 With Help From Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara … The KGB Also Created The Democratic Front For The Liberation Of Palestine, Which Carried Out Numerous Bombing Attacks.
In 1964 The First PLO Council, Consisting Of 422 Palestinian Representatives Handpicked By The KGB, Approved The Palestinian National Charter — A Document That Had Been Drafted In Moscow. The Palestinian National Covenant And The Palestinian Constitution Were Also Born In Moscow, With The Help Of Ahmed Shuqairy, A KGB Influence Agent Who Became The First PLO Chairman."
For Arafat to head the PLO, he had to be a made into a "Palestinian." Pacepa explained:
"[Arafat] Was An Egyptian Bourgeois Turned Into A Devoted Marxist By KGB Foreign Intelligence. The KGB Had Trained Him At Its Balashikha Special-Operations School East Of Moscow And In The Mid-1960s Decided To Groom Him As The Future PLO Leader.
First, The KGB Destroyed The Official Records Of Arafat’s Birth In Cairo, And Replaced Them With Fictitious Documents Saying That He Had Been Born In Jerusalem And Was Therefore A Palestinian By Birth."
Arafat and his Soviet handlers made copious use of Islamic anti-Semitism. KGB chief Yuri Andropov noted:
"[T]He Islamic World Was A Waiting Petri Dish In Which We Could Nurture A Virulent Strain Of America-Hatred, Grown From The Bacterium Of Marxist-Leninist Thought. Islamic Anti-Semitism Ran Deep. … We Had Only To Keep Repeating Our Themes — That The United States And Israel Were ‘Fascist, Imperial-Zionist Countries’ Bankrolled By Rich Jews...
Islam Was Obsessed With Preventing The Infidels’ Occupation Of Its Territory, And It Would Be Highly Receptive To Our Characterization Of The U.S. Congress As A Rapacious Zionist Body Aiming To Turn The World Into A Jewish Fiefdom."
PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein explained the strategy more fully in a 1977 interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw:
"The Palestinian People Does Not Exist. The Creation Of A Palestinian State Is Only A Means For Continuing Our Struggle Against The State Of Israel For Our Arab Unity. In Reality Today There Is No Difference Between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians And Lebanese. Only For Political And Tactical Reasons Do We Speak Today About The Existence Of A Palestinian People, Since Arab National Interests Demand That We Posit The Existence Of A Distinct “Palestinian People” To Oppose Zionism."
For Tactical Reasons, Jordan, Which Is A Sovereign State With Defined Borders, Cannot Raise Claims To Haifa And Jaffa, While As A Palestinian, I Can Undoubtedly Demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva And Jerusalem. However, The Moment We Reclaim Our Right To All Of Palestine, We Will Not Wait Even A Minute To Unite Palestine And Jordan."
Once the fictional people had been created, their desire for peace could be easily fabricated as well. Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu tutored Arafat in how to play the West like a fiddle. Pacepa recounted:
"In March 1978, I Secretly Brought Arafat To Bucharest For Final Instructions On How To Behave In Washington. “You Simply Have To Keep On Pretending That You’ll Break With Terrorism And That You’ll Recognize Israel — Over, And Over, And Over,” Ceausescu Told Him [Arafat]. … Ceausescu Was Euphoric Over The Prospect That Both Arafat And He Might Be Able To Snag A Nobel Peace Prize With Their Fake Displays Of The Olive Branch. …
Ceausescu Failed To Get His Nobel Peace Prize. But In 1994 Arafat Got His — All Because He Continued To Play The Role We Had Given Him To Perfection. He Had Transformed His Terrorist PLO Into A Government-In-Exile (The Palestinian Authority), Always Pretending To Call A Halt To Palestinian Terrorism While Letting It Continue Unabated.
Two Years After Signing The Oslo Accords, The Number Of Israelis Killed By Palestinian Terrorists Had Risen By 73 Percent."
This strategy continued to work beautifully, through U.S.-brokered “peace process” after “peace process,” from the 1978 Camp David Accords into the presidency of Barack Obama and beyond, with no end in sight. Western authorities never seem to ponder why so many attempts to achieve a negotiated peace between Israel and the “Palestinians,” whose historical existence everyone by now takes for granted, have all failed. The answer, of course, lies in the Islamic doctrine of jihad. “Drive them out from where they drove you out” is a command that contains no mitigation and accepts none.
The "Free Palestine" activists do not know that “Palestine” is an artificial nation and people with no distinctive traditions or culture of its own, created solely as a weapon to be used against Israel. The Palestinian Arabs are not distinguishable linguistically, culturally, ethnically, or religiously from the Arabs of Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan. The facts show the hollowness and ignorance of the supporters of "From the River to the Sea" genocidal rant. There is no Palestinian heritage, tradition, or culture other than hating Israel and wanting to destroy it. That’s why the Palestinian nationality was fabricated, and that’s why it exists; to demonize and delegitimize the Jewish state of Israel.
The UN, born in 1945, never referenced any “Palestinians” in any UN resolution on the Arab-Israel conflict for its first twenty-five years. Prior to the birth of the State of Israel, the language of the Arab enemy of the Jews in Mandatory Palestine (1920-1948) was exclusively religious; not until the 1970s did the religious resistance to Zionism morph into a political movement of “national liberation.” Not until the General Assembly produced Res. 2672 on December 8, 1970, whose text referenced “the people of Palestine” and their “inalienable rights,” did the UN begin to lose its mind over the “Palestinians.” What followed was decades of an annual avalanche of hundreds of “pro-Palestinian” resolutions that has never ceased to this day.
The leader of the Arabs in Palestine 1920-1960 was Hitler's ally, Haj Amin a-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who angrily and murderously rejected the League of Nations’ Palestine Mandate of 1922 that created the new, post-WWI political jurisdiction called Palestine. Al-Husseini said there never was such a country in Islamic history and he was right. Never did Muslims know of a country with that name, let alone were familiar with its geography.
What is today called the “West Bank” is what maps for thousands of years was labeled “Judea” and “Samaria.” For millennia, the Arabs had no names for Judea and Samaria and still do not. The “Palestinians” claim to be the indigenous people of the “West Bank” but, oddly, unlike authentic indigenes, like the Jews, they never named the territories’ natural features: mountains, rivers, lakes. In fact, UN General Assembly Partition Plan in 1947 said nothing of a “West Bank,” only “Samaria and Judea.”
Those who today identify as Palestinians and claim they were the indigenous population of the geography are actually third and fourth generation descendants of Arabs from surrounding countries. The Arabs were the actual colonizers and settlers who came to Palestine because of the economic opportunities brought about by Zionism. Winston Churchill recognized these undisputable facts. In 1922, he wrote in -"A Peace To End All Peace" - '' The Arabs would have sat in the dark forever had not the Zionists engineers harnessed the Jordan river for electrification. Now they swarm into Palestine in seeking the light.'' In the House of Commons, May 1939, he stated: "So far from being persecuted, the Arabs have crowded into Palestine and multiplied until their population has increased more than even all world Jewry....'' The Peel Commission Report of 1937 stated: '' This illegal Arab immigration was not only going on from the Sinai, but also from Transjordan and Syria ...'' This same report cited the Nazi collaborator, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini admitting to Sir Laurie Hammond that all land had been legally purchased by the Zionists via the Jewish National Fund or individual philanthropists and absolutely no land had been stolen.
Not until the 20th century did the world get to know today’s states of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel. Before then, all their lands had been part of an undifferentiated Syria. The Mufti even published a newspaper called “Southern Syria”/al-Suria al-Janubia to combat the invention of a Palestine by the League because the Mandate explicitly defined the new polity as “the historic homeland” of the Jews.
There is no "occupation of Palestine." There is nothing illegal about a Jewish presence in territories to which the Jewish state has legal, historical, biblical, and other binding and valid claims.The truth is that the Jewish people are indigenous to the land of Israel and first achieved self-determination there over 3,000 years ago. In spite of the Roman expulsion of Jews in 70 C.E., the Jewish people have always been present in the land of Israel. . This historical and religious link for Jewish people to the land of Israel is indisputable—even the word “Jew” comes from Judea, the ancient name for Israel. "Settler Colonialism" refers to an attempt by an imperial power to replace the native population of a land with a new society of settlers. This is not the case with the Jews, acting on their own behalf and not at the behest of an external power, returned to its historic homeland to achieve self-determination while simultaneously supporting the creation of a nation-state for another national group alongside the creation of their own state. The fiction of "settler colonialism" used by Hamas and the PA, point to one very clear fact:This has never been about land. It is because Israel is Jewish.
The fiction of "occupation," was first conceived between the 2nd and 4th Centuries C.E., from the writings and preachings of the early Church Fathers; like Origen of Alexandria (182–254 C.E.), and John Chrysostom (349-407CE). They established the erroneous teaching of replacement theology, also known as supersessionism which states: 1) The Jews should be charged with deicide and forever should be mistreated accordingly; and 2) The Church has replaced Israel, that all of the prophecies and covenants (i.e., Gen. 12:1-2,7; Gen. 15:18-21; Gen. 17:7; etc.) concerning the Jewish people are now applied to the Church; and God has no future purpose for the Jews; as they are in league with the Satan, forming a conspiratorial body bent on ruining and dominating the rest of mankind. Much of today's anti-Semitic conspiracies have their genesis in this doctrine. But nowhere in the Bible does it say that God has replaced and disowned the Jewish people. The church never was promised a land, never occupied a land, never was cast out of that land for her sin, and never was promised that she would be brought back into that land. The Church is not Israel. And, yes, the modern state of Israel is the biblical Israel.
The current version of this evil is to be found in several 'Palestinian' Christian NGO's; such as Naim Ateek's Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center; The Kairos Palestine Document, and the Munther Isaac's "Christ at the Checkpoint" biannual conferences. All seek to advance the fiction of a Palestinian nationalist agenda within Evangelical Christian churches, while simultaneously reviving theological anti-Semitic themes complete with deicide imagery, and supercessionist rhetoric used to demonize and delegitimize Israel and Judaism. There are major churches in the U.S. such as the the Presbyterian Church (USA), United Church of Christ, United Methodist Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church, and others who are allied with this movement.
The malevolent concepts, contained within "Palestinian Liberation Theology," are rooted in an audacious strategy adopted by the Palestinian Authority to deny Israel’s right to exist by changing Jewish history to suit its own end. Part of this strategy involves denying that Jesus was a Jew from Judea and turning him into a Palestinian who preached Islam.
Clearly, this is a tall order: Rome didn’t change the name of Judea to Palestine until 134 A.D., and Islam did not appear for another seven centuries. Nevertheless, the Palestinian leadership repeatedly claims that Jesus was a Palestinian Arab, and the Jewish people of today are apparently not Jews at all, but Khazars. The newly fashionable Khazar mythology holds that modern day Ashkenazim, and especially the European leadership of the Zionist movement, are not Jews at all in the racial sense, but rather descendents from non-Jewish Khazars; therefore, the Khazar "theorists" claim, Zionists and Israelis have no legitimate claims to the Land of Israel.
Arab and Islamo-fascist propagandists have long bandied about the Ashkenazim as Khazars theory and
Iran’s genocidal leaders adore it. Al-Jazeera has been using the Khazar myth to urge a worldwide Christian religious war against the Jews and Israel.
The entire Khazar theory of Ashkenazi Jews is a total lie, and it also is entirely irrelevant. Because Judaism has never defined Jews on racial grounds. Anyone from any race is welcome as a convert to Judaism as long as he or she is sincere. The biblical Israelites themselves were already a racial hodgepodge. They absorbed the "mixed multitude" that left Egypt together with them at the time of the Exodus. There are biblical references to Jews of different racial features, including the black-skinned Shulamit mentioned in the Song of Songs. Jews always defined themselves in religious, ethnic-national and at times linguistic terms, but never along racial lines. If all Ashkenazi Jews were indeed converted Khazars, as the racial anti-Zionists claim, they would be no less legitimately Jews – and, as such, would have the same legitimate claims to the Jewish homeland as any other group of Jews. (Given the traditional Jewish deference to righteous converts, like Ruth, maybe more so.)
The actual details of the Khazar myth concerning European Jewry are simply pseudo-history and crackpot nonsense. Jews already lived in Europe a thousand years before the Turkic kingdom of Khazaria was formed. There are no genetic markers or indicators at all showing that Ashkenazi Jews are descended from Turkic tribes. In fact, there exists considerable genetic evidence showing that Ashkenazic Jews are closer to Levantine and Syrian Jews and Arabs than to Central Asians. Recentgenetic studies, based on Y chromosome polymorphic markers, clearly showed that Ashkenazim are more closely related to other Jewish and Middle Eastern groups than to their host populations in Europe. Those findings argue against large-scale male-mediated gene flow into the Ashkenazi community during the Diaspora. The male admixture proportion of Europeans in Ashkenazi Jews was estimated to be 0.5% per generation, indicating that Ashkenazim remained, to a large extent, genetically isolated throughout their history.
It is a mistake to assume that the masses would read educated, sane, and credible writers of history who can be taken seriously. For there exists a subterranean world where pathological fantasies disguised as facts are churned out by unscrupulous crooks and un-educated fanatics for the benefit of the ignorant and superstitious. In certain historical situations such an underworld captivates millions of otherwise sane people, and cause them to take leave of their senses; becomes a political force, and changes the course of history. For this is the most deadly form of propaganda, that which aims at and results in real atrocities and genocide, has little to do with objective reality and the facts on the ground. One can see how this escalates from online harassment to mob violence, from ritual humiliation to violent assaults and murder. From anonymous trolls to actual assaults. Online hate is a training ground for riots, terrorism and a civil war. What makes all of it possible is the conscious abandonment of critical thinking and individual morality. The moral code of Woke is that there are no universal moral codes that apply equally, only the political death struggle of “us” and “them."
But this is true of all totalistic ideology, which requires that you reject your own personal experience in favor of the proclaimed truth of the narrative or doctrine and that is a key element which every totalistic ideology depends upon; be it religious or political. It really is at the heart of what is going on now, and it has to be recognized and looked at. One reason why so many people may be susceptible to this phenomenon, (i.e., the corruption of the language and the use of official narrative or doctrine over the person,) is that they live in such a confused relationship to objective truth, as opposed to proclaimed truth, to which everybody has become in some way ambivalent. This points to a serious problem within our society, and that is many people have a really confused relationship between self and world. And these exaggerated simplifications, and the thought terminating cliches, which are propagated by terrorist organizations and social media apps like Tik Tok are really the language of non thought; which can have tremendous appeal in the midst of the confusion and hysteria which emanate from a crisis.
But it is always easier to accept rhetoric, official doctrines and mandates, and easy answers than to engage in self-reflective or critical thinking. Thinking has never been easy. And taking away people’s certainty, however flimsy it may be, by challenging their convictions has always been a dangerous activity. This is why political philosopher and writer Hannah Arendt once said, “The notion that there exist dangerous thoughts is mistaken for the simple reason that thinking itself is dangerous to all creeds, convictions, and opinions....
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e.,the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”― Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism"
This is the case with the cult of "Free Palestine."
When Hannah Arendt attended the 1961 trial in Jerusalem of Adolph Eichmann, one of the major organizers of the "Final Solution," she observed that, much to her surprise, Eichmann wasn't the incarnation of evil that she expected to encounter. His actions were monstrous, yes; but he was remarkably ordinary or "banal," to use Arendt's term of choice. What struck Arendt was Eichmann's "curious, but quite authentic inability to think." Today, there can be no question that "the curious, but quite authentic, inability to think" that first grasped Arendt's attention in Eichmann is as ubiquitous and glaring today as it has ever been.The masses of Americans on university campuses, who have bought hook, line, and sinker, without a moment's critical thinking, the official narrative of "Free Palestine."
Why are people so willing to believe demonstrable lies? The desperation alienated people have for a story that helps them make sense of their lives and tells them what to do explains it. For a man desperate to believe, totalitarian ideology is more precious than life itself. He may even be willing to help in his own prosecution and frame his own death sentence if only his status as a member of the movement is not touched. Indeed, the files of the 1930s Stalinist show trials are full of false confessions by devout Communists who were prepared to die rather than admit that Communism was a lie. Similarly, the same behavior applies to the cult-like devotees of "Free Palestine."
The truth is that Israel has been trying to make peace with the Palestinians ever since the nation’s birth over 70 years ago. The truth is, the Palestinians have greeted every peace offer from day one with thousands of terrorist and missile attacks on Israeli civilians, killing thousands of innocent Israelis.
So, the Arab Muslims tell patent lies of apartheid, genocide and occupation. Though none of the accusations are true, and are easily disproved, the gullible in the West are quick to join the chorus, and repeat these fictions like mindless zombies.
The hardships in Gaza have been and still are caused by the Hamas leadership, who routinely steals funds intended for Palestinian civilians to build a financial empire outside the Gaza Strip worth about $700 million that supports its terror operations. Since coming to power in a violent coup in 2007 in Gaza, Hamas has systematically exploited Palestinian civilians, using them to protect their terrorist infrastructure while stealing enormous quantities of resources to build their war machine. Hamas continually diverts critical civilian resources, and humanitarian aid for its terrorism; transforming everyday materials, which should be used for infrastructure, into weapons. While their people languish in poverty and are treated as human shields, the leaders of Hamas live billionaire lifestyles. The terror group’s three top leaders alone are worth a staggering $11 billion between them and enjoy a life of luxury in the sanctuary of the emirate of Qatar. The emirate has long welcomed the leaders of the terror group and installed them in its luxury hotels and villas.
Who has been occupying Gaza for the past 20 years?
Israel unilaterally evacuated all Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip in 2005, turning it over — entirely and unconditionally — to the Palestinians in the hope that by ruling themselves they might finally seek to live peacefully with their neighbors. Several American millionaires even bought 3,000 greenhouses for $14 million and handed them over to the Gazans to give them a running start in building a "Singapore on the Mediterranean." Within days, the greenhouses had been looted and destroyed. The Palestinians, unfortunately for them and everyone else, proceeded to elect Hamas to power in their 2006 legislative elections. Following a bloody civil war with its rival Palestinian party Fatah, Hamas, by June 2007 Hamas fully controlled the Gaza Strip. Since then, Israeli civilians in southern Israel, as well as Palestinians in Gaza, have been living in terror. Israel, roughly the size of New Jersey (22,000 sq.km), has been targeted year after year by tens of thousands of deadly rocket attacks launched from the Gaza Strip. If there is an "occupation" problem in Gaza, the occupier is Hamas, not Israel.
The unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state by the US administration with its capital in Jerusalem would be the epitome of recklessness, leading to grievous consequences. This decision would appear as an endorsement of the October 7 massacre and set a precedent for all radical factions that henceforth, one's objectives can be achieved through such a detestable, inhumane method as demonstrated by Hamas. Such a precedent would be costly not just for the region, but for the entire world, and the inevitable domino effect would undoubtedly shake the foundations upon which a rational human society is built. Present-day Palestine is far from ready to be a friendly neighbor to Israel. The two-state solution could have been realized had Palestinian Arabs not rejected the UN resolution in the past and instead chosen a long, senseless, and bloody path over peace and prosperity. Now, more than ever, Palestine is far from capable of establishing its own state. Hamas has infiltrated all levels of society, imbuing it with a death ideology and hatred towards the Jewish people. The culmination of its actions was the horrifying massacre on October 7, which was supported by a large portion of Gaza's population. Years of preparation, including tunnel digging, fundraising for terrorism, grooming terrorists from a young age, and creating fortified command centers in hospitals, schools, and mosques stocked with a vast array of rockets, ammunition, explosives, and weapons, did not go unnoticed. Hamas controlled all aspects of life, subjugated charitable organizations, and UNRWA became almost its right hand, funded by leading world powers. How, then, can there be talk of creating an independent Palestinian state when, since 2005, Palestine could have proven its capability for self-sustenance and prosperity but instead chose the path of terror? What has changed now? A sudden enlightenment and repentance that will lead to peace built on blood?
What Biden, Blinken, and the rest of the foreign policy establishment fail to realize, or refuse to realize, is that the UN partition plan failed for one reason only: The Muslim Arabs of Palestine and the surrounding Arab countries will never accept a Jewish state, even if it were the size of a postage stamp. As history shows, that refusal is rooted in Islamic concepts and commands, most notably the Qur’anic command to “drive out those who drove you out” (2:191) and its underlying assumption that any land that has been ruled by the Muslims at any time belongs to the Muslims forever and can never be ruled by anyone else. If a Palestinian state ever were established, it would quickly become a jihad terror base, as did Gaza when the Israelis withdrew from it.
Those who tout the two-state solution today seem to think that somehow, in the decades since the tumultuous period following the end of World War II, this situation has changed. But it has not, and it will not. Islam is still Islam. Its Qur’an has not changed; neither has its theology. The imperatives that led the Muslim Arabs to reject a two-state solution in 1947, and to go to war to destroy the nascent Jewish state in 1948, still exist and are still believed by millions of Muslims worldwide. It is only by ignoring this, or by remaining willfully ignorant of it, that diplomats and kings and presidents could ever have thought that a negotiated agreement can be hit upon that would enable Israelis and Palestinians to lay down their arms and live side by side in peace.
That is not to say that the Israeli-Palestinian problem cannot be managed such that there is a minimum of bloodshed on both sides. But to think that a peace accord can be hit upon that will induce Muslims in the Middle East and around the world to give up Islam’s doctrines of jihad, its deeply rooted anti-Semitism, and its supremacist political ideology is a position that could only be held by the willfully ignorant and historically uninformed. Of course, they’re the people running Washington.