by Dr. Reuven Berko
Back in the days of the
British Mandate, Jewish community elders used to say in jest that the
Palestinians were "a bastard child, born from a Zionist womb and British
father." According to broadcasts now coming from the Voice of Palestine
radio station, however, the land of Israel never had a Jewish mother.
According to the
archaeologists on the Voice of Palestine, the land belongs to the
Palestinians because they are the descendants of nations who inhabited
it before its invasion by "bandits and murderers" who came here
arbitrarily with Moses and went by the name of "Habiru" or "Apiru."
These people were documented as ephemeral nomads and thieves, and
records of them even appear in the Amarna Letters written during the New
Kingdom-era in Egypt.
In Israel, the
Palestinians are not denounced. There are those who point to the Jewish
origins of rural Palestinians who converted to Islam. Some people posit
that there is a genetic link between Jews and Palestinians. Others
highlight the influx of laborers from across the Arab world who came
here seeking to capitalize on the Zionists' prospering economy.
Historians of the Middle East point to the Arab conquest in the seventh
century, while European visitors described the land as barren and
disease-ridden.
The Palestinians, on
the other hand, fundamentally reject us. The Voice of Palestine radio
station works at inventing history for a Palestinian people that are
never mentioned in any historical document, not even in the Quran.
The problem is that
adopting the false Palestinian narrative is dependent on simultaneously
rejecting the Jews' historical rights to the land of Israel, which is
presented as a fleeting episode, even though these rights are anchored
in Islamic prophecies, Christian historiography, and of course in the
book of books, the Bible.
Yasser Arafat renewed
the Palestinian "start-up" as the greatest historical thief of all. At
the height of peace negotiations he denied all ties between the Jews to
the land of Israel and Jerusalem, and he is the one who created
Palestinian birth certificates stating they are the descendants of the
Jebusites, the Canaanite tribe which inhabited Jerusalem prior to its
conquest by King David.
Arafat's successors
propagate a version of history in which Jesus of Nazareth, born to his
Jewish mother Miriam, is the "Arab-Palestinian messiah."
The Al-Jazeera
documentary series "Our History in Their Archive: Zionist Terrorism"
portrays Israel as a fictitious entity built on a false collection of
documentation and murderous acts, in contrast to the Palestinians'
undeniable historical right.
In Israel, meanwhile,
several crafty journalists have appointed themselves heads of political
parties. Their publicists describe the "primitive and fervent"
right-wing as the brutal denier of the "definite" Palestinian desire for
peace. They believe that only the Left can lead and that only it has
been endowed with the attributes of universal justice, human rights and
social equality, pluralism and socialism. They denounce many portions of
the nation, who correctly see the reality of the situation and prefer
their own "plebeian" intuitions over the heavenly aspirations of the
intellect.
The naïve voter could
confuse the issue: Is the Left only fooling itself, or the public as
well? Has it managed to "sneak in" another peace agreement with the
Palestinians that even they are unaware of and won't sign?
As opposed to the
Jewish operational code — which seeks immediate gratification and peace
now and believes that a little demagoguery will lead the Palestinians to
cede all of Palestine — the Palestinian operational code of ulterior
motives, formulated in Arabic, stipulates that "patience is the key to
victory" and that the Jews must be treated according to the Arafat
legacy: "Take and then demand more."
In the Gaza Strip, Judea and
Samaria and the Palestinian diaspora, the right of return and the
destruction of Israel haven't been abandoned. Anyone who listens to the
Voice of Palestine understands that the Palestinians are continuing to
speak to the world in the language of peace, but in Arabic they sing and
chant their inciting desire to "return to Palestine" through the power
of the rifle, including to Haifa, Acre, Jaffa and Safed.
Dr. Reuven Berko
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=3275
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