by Daniel Greenfield
Confronting the forgotten history of Muslim occupation of Israel.
When Jordan's Arab Legion seized half of Jerusalem, ethnically cleansed its Jewish population and annexed the city-- the only entity to recognize the annexation was the United Kingdom which had provided the officers and the training that made the conquest possible. Officers like Colonel Bill Newman, Major Geoffrey Lockett and Major Bob Slade, under Glubb Pasha, better known as General John Bagot Glubb, whose son later converted to Islam, invaded Jerusalem and used the Muslim forces under their command to make the partition and ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem possible.
The Jews living in the free half of Jerusalem continued to be killed by
Jordanian Muslim snipers. The victims of those years of Muslim
occupation included Yaffa Binyamin, a 14-year-old girl sitting on the
balcony of her own house and a Christian carpenter working on the Notre
Dame Convent.
Under Muslim occupation, while Muslim snipers were murdering their
children, the Jewish residents living under fire couldn't so much as put
in an outhouse without being reported to the UN for illegal
construction. In one case a UN observer organization held four meetings
to discuss an outhouse for local residents before condemning Israel for
illegal construction.
It did not however condemn Jordan when one of its soldiers opened fire on a train wounding a Jewish teenage girl.
Not very much has changed.
The hysterical condemnations of “illegal construction” did not end when
the Muslim occupation did. The great outhouse of the United Nations and
the smaller outhouses of the foreign ministries of countries whose
leaders tremble whenever Muslims grow agitated over a cartoon or a
YouTube video fill the air with the vilest of substances whenever a
Jewish family moves into a home in Jerusalem.
It would be inconceivable for the international community to denounce
an ethnically cleansed group which survived attempted genocide for
moving back into its own city. It is, however, standard policy at the
State Department and the Foreign Office to denounce Jews living in those
parts of Jerusalem that had been ethnically cleansed by Muslims, as
"settlers" living in "settlements," and accuse them of being an
"obstruction to peace."
Peace being the state of affairs that sets in when an ethnic cleansing goes unchallenged.
What we are talking about here is not peace, but ethnic cleansing. In
1948, the Jews were ethnically cleansed from Jerusalem to Islamize the
city. Their synagogues were blown up by the Muslim occupiers. Their
tombstones were used to line the roads traveled by the racist Muslim
settlers. In 1948, the Jews were ethnically cleansed from Jerusalem to
Islamize the city. Whether they were Zionists or anti-Zionists did not
matter. They were not Muslims. That was all that counted.
“For the first time in 1,000 years not a single Jew remains in the
Jewish Quarter,” Abdullah el-Talal, a commander of the Muslim invaders,
had boasted. “Not a single building remains intact. This makes the Jews'
return here impossible.” In his memoirs he wrote, “I knew that the
Jewish Quarter was densely populated with Jews who caused their fighters
a good deal of interference and difficulty…. Only four days after our
entry into Jerusalem the Jewish Quarter had become their graveyard.
Death and destruction reigned over it.”
Every politician who denounces Jews building houses in Jerusalem, but
not Muslims doing the same thing is endorsing Abdullah’s genocidal
vision and all the terrorism that goes with it.
In 1920, racist Muslim settler mobs in Jerusalem had chanted
"Mohammed's religion was born with the sword", “Death to the Jews” and
“the government is with us” as Muslim policemen under British colonial
rule had joined with them in the rape and murder of the indigenous
Jewish population.
Too many governments are still with those who wave the sword of
Mohammed and cry death to the Jews. They encourage them, defend their
agenda and issue weak rebukes when blood is spilled in the name of
Islamization in Jerusalem, as it is in Kobani by ISIS and a thousand
other places. Those who endorse the Islamization of Jerusalem cannot
escape responsibilities for the crimes of the Islamizers.
Describing Jewish homes in Jerusalem, one of the world's oldest cities,
a city that all three religions in the region associate with Jews and
Jewish history, as "settlements" is a triumph of distorted language that
Orwell would have to tip his hat to. How does one have "settlements" in
a city older than London or Washington D.C.?
To understand that, you would have to ask London and Washington D.C.
where the diplomats insist that one more round of Israeli compromises
will bring peace.
They say that there are three religions in Jerusalem, but there are
actually four. The fourth religion is the true Religion of Peace, the
one that insists that there will be peace when the Jews have been
expelled from Judea and Samaria, driven out of their homes in Jerusalem,
and made into wanderers and beggars once again. Oddly enough, this
religion's name isn't even Islam-- it's diplomacy.
Diplomacy says that the 1948 borders set by Arab countries invading
Israel should be the final borders and that, when Israel reunified a
sundered city in 1967, it was an act of aggression, while, when seven
Arab armies invaded Israel in 1948, it was a legitimate way to set
permanent boundaries. When Jordan ethnically cleansed East Jerusalem, it
set a standard that Israelis are obligated to follow to this day by
staying out of East Jerusalem. To violate that ethnic cleansing
endangers peace.
When Muslims move into a Jewish town, there's no clamor. When Muslim
countries fund Muslim housing in Israel, there are no angry statements.
Muslim housing in Jerusalem or anywhere in Israel is not a problem. Only
Jewish housing is.
The issue is not Israel. If it were, then Arabs with Israeli
citizenship would also be condemned. It's only the Jews who are the
problem.
The entire Peace Process is really a prolonged solution to the latest
phase of the Jewish Problem. The problem, as stated by so many
diplomats, is that there are Jews living in places that Muslims want.
There were Jews living in Gaza before 1948, but they were driven out,
they came back, and then they were driven out again by their own
government in compliance with international demands. Now only Hamas
lives in Gaza and it's as peaceful and pleasant without the Jews as Nazi
Germany.
But there are still Jews in the West Bank and they have to be gotten
rid of. Once enough Jews have been expelled, there will be peace. That's
not a paragraph from Mein Kampf, it's not some lunatic sermon
from Palestinian Authority television-- it is the consensus of the
international community. This consensus states that the only reason
there still isn't peace is because enough Jews haven't been expelled
from their homes. The ethnic cleansing for peace hasn't gone far enough.
There will be peace when all the Jews are gone. That much is certainly
undeniable. Just look at Gaza or Egypt or Iraq or Afghanistan, which has
a grand total of two Jews, both of them in their seventies. Or
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Syria where peace reigns now that the Jews
are gone. Some might say that violence seems to increase proportionally
with the number of Muslims, but we all know that would be Islamophobic.
On the other hand suggesting that violence increases with the number of
Jews living on land that Muslims want, that's just diplomacy. A common
sense fact that everyone who is anyone in foreign policy knows to be
true.
How will we know when the Muslims have gotten all the land that they
want? When the violence stops. Everyone knows that agreements mean
nothing. No matter how many pieces of paper are signed, the bombs and
rockets still keep bursting. The only way to reach an agreement is by
groping blindly in the dark, handing over parcel after parcel of land,
until the explosions stop or the Muslims fulfill their original goal of
pushing the Jews into the sea.
That's the wonderful thing about diplomacy if you're a diplomat and the
terrible thing about it if you are anyone else without a secure way out
of the country when diplomacy fails. And diplomacy in the region always
fails. Camp David and every single agreement Israel has signed with
Muslim countries aren't worth the paper they're written on. The only
peace treaty that counts is the one made by tanks and rifles. It's the
one made by Israeli planes in Egyptian skies and Israeli soldiers
walking the border. It's the one made by Jewish farmers and ranchers,
tending their sheep and their fields, with rifles strung over their
backs. The only peace that's worth anything is the peace of the soldiers
and settlers.
In 1966, Jerusalem was a city sundered in two, divided by barbed wire
and the bullets of Muslim snipers. Diplomacy did not reunite it. Israel
pursued diplomacy nearly to its bitter end until it understood that it
had no choice at all but to fight. Israel did not swoop into the fight,
its leaders did their best to avoid the conflict, asking the
international community to intervene and stop Egypt from going to war.
Read back the headlines for the last five years on Israel and Iran, and
you will get a sense of the courage and determination of the Israeli
leaders of the day.
When Israel went to war, its leaders did not want to liberate
Jerusalem, they wanted Jordan to stay out of the war. Even when Jordan
entered the war, they did not want to liberate the city. Divine
Providence and Muslim hostility forced them to liberate Jerusalem and
forced them to keep it. Now some of them would like to give it back,
another sacrifice to the bloody deity of diplomacy whose altar flows
with blood and burnt sacrifices.
As we remember Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day, it is important to
remember that the city is united and free because diplomacy failed. The
greatest triumph of the modern state happened only because diplomacy
proved hopeless and useless in deterring Muslim genocidal ambitions. Had
Israel succumbed to international pressure and had Nasser been as
subtle as Sadat, then the Six-Day War would have looked like the Yom
Kippur War fought with 1948 borders-- and Israel very likely would not
exist today.
Even as Jews remember the great triumph of Yom Yerushalayim, the ethnic
cleansers and their accomplices are busy searching for ways to drive
Jews out of Jerusalem, out of towns, villages and cities. This isn't
about the Muslim residents of Jerusalem, who have repeatedly asserted
that they want to remain part of Israel. It's not about peace, which did
not come from any previous round of concessions, and will not come from
this one either. It's about solving the Jewish problem.
As long as Jews allow themselves to be defined as the problem, there
will be plenty of those offering solutions. And the solutions invariably
involve doing something about the Jews. It only stands to reason that
if Jews are the problem, then moving them or getting rid of them is the
solution. There is less friction in defining Jews as the problem, than
in defining Muslims as the problem. The numbers alone mean that is so.
Yom Yerushalayim is a reminder of what the real problem is and what the
real solution is. Muslim occupation of Israel is the problem. The
Islamization of Jerusalem is the problem. Muslim violence in support of
the Muslim occupation of Israel and of everywhere else is the problem.
Israel is the solution. Only when we liberate ourselves from the lies,
when we stop believing that we are the problem and recognize that we are
the solution. Only then will the liberation that began in 1967 be
complete.
Only then will we have liberated our Jerusalem. The Jerusalem of the
soul. It is incumbent on all of us to liberate that little Jerusalem
within. The holy city that lives in all of us. To clean the dross off
its golden gates, wash the filth from its stones and expel the invaders
gnawing away at our hearts until we look proudly upon a shining city.
Then to help others liberate their own Jerusalems. Only then will we
truly be free.
[Editor: This is an excellent article, but does not mention the original Muslim invasion and occupation of Jerusalem in the early 7th century.]
Daniel Greenfield
Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/liberating-our-jerusalem-daniel-greenfield/
