GUEST POST: Who Are the Palestinians

(a guest post by Mr. Cohen)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
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1. Who Are the Palestinians? by Yashiko Sagamori
2. What happened to the Philistines? by Mr. Cohen
3. Josephus and the Philistines by Mr. Cohen
4. Where did the Philistines come from? by Mr. Cohen
5. Where did the Philistines live? by Mr. Cohen
6. Four Quotes about Palestine
7. Why did the Olso peace treaty fail?
8. Articles about the Palestinians from Aish HaTorah (LINKS)
9. More Articles about the Palestinians (miscellaneous) (LINKS)
10. Articles about the Palestinians from Mr. Patrick Condell (LINKS)
11. Pro-Israel Articles from Aish HaTorah (LINKS)
12. Articles Refuting the BDS Movement from Aish HaTorah (LINKS)
13. Articles about Media Bias against Israel from Aish HaTorah (LINKS)
14. Ancient Roman historians connected Jews with the Land of Israel
15. Why Israel’s 1967 Borders are Undefendable (LINKS)
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Who Are the Palestinians?
by Yashiko Sagamori  --  2002 November 25

Yashiko Sagamori is a New York-based

Information Technology consultant.
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If you are so sure that "Palestine, the country, goes back

through most of recorded history", I expect you to be able

to answer a few basic questions about that country of "Palestine":

1. When was it founded and by whom?

2. What were its borders?

3. What was its capital?

4. What were its major cities?

5. What constituted the basis of its economy?

6. What was its form of government?

7. Can you name at least one Palestinian leader before Arafat?

8. Was Palestine ever recognized by a country whose existence,

at that time or now, leaves no room for interpretation?

9. What was the [unique] language of the country of Palestine?

10. What was the prevalent religion of the country of Palestine?

11. What was the name of its currency? Choose any date in history

and try and find the approximate exchange rate of the Palestinian

 monetary unit against the US dollar, German mark, British pound,

Japanese yen, or Chinese yuan on that date.

12. Have the Palestinians left any artifacts behind?

13. Do you know of a library where one could find a work

of Palestinian literature produced before 1967 CE?

14. And, finally, since there is no such country today,

what caused its demise and when did it occur?

If you are lamenting the "low sinking" of "once proud"

nation, then please tell me, when exactly was that "nation"

proud and what was it so proud of?

And here is the least sarcastic question of all: If the people

you mistakenly call "Palestinians" are anything but generic

Arabs collected from all over - or thrown out of - the Arab

world, if they really have a genuine ethnic identity that gives

them right for self-determination, why did they never try

to become independent until Arabs suffered their devastating

defeat by Israel in the 1967 Six Day War?

I hope you avoid the temptation to trace the modern-day

"Palestinians" to the Biblical Philistines: substituting

etymology for history won´t work here.

The truth should be obvious to everyone who wants to know it. 

Arab countries have never abandoned the dream of destroying

Israel; they still cherish it today. Having time and again failed

to achieve their evil goal through military means, they decided

to fight Israel by proxy. 

For that purpose, they created a terrorist organization, cynically

called it "the Palestinian people" and installed it in Gaza, Judea,

and Samaria.  How else can you explain the refusal by Jordan

and Egypt to unconditionally accept back the "West Bank"

and Gaza, respectively, in the aftermath of the 1967 war?

The fact is, Arabs populating Gaza, Judea, and Samaria have

much less of a claim to nationhood than the American Indian

tribe that successfully emerged in Connecticut with the purpose

of starting a tax-exempt casino: at least that tribe had a constructive

goal that motivated them.

The so-called "Palestinians" have only one motivation:

the destruction of Israel. In my book that is not sufficient to

consider them a "nation" -- or anything else -- except what they

really are: a terrorist organization that will one day be dismantled.

In fact, there is only one way to achieve piece in the Middle East.

Arab countries must acknowledge and accept their defeat in

their war against Israel and, as the losing side, should pay Israel

reparations for the more than 50 years of devastation they have

visited upon it. The most appropriate form of such reparations

would be the removal of their terrorist organization from the

land of Israel and acceptance of Israel´s ancient sovereignty

over Gaza, Judea, and Samaria.

That will mark the end of the Palestinian people.

What are you saying again was its beginning?

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What happened to the Philistines? by Mr. Cohen
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Some Palestinians claim to be descendants of the Philistines,

an ancient nation that is mentioned in the Bible.  This claim

is very unlikely to be true, because around the year 600 BCE,

King Nebuchadnezzar [king of Babylon] destroyed most of

the Philistines, and the rest were deported to Babylon. 

According to the article titled: “Who Were the Philistines?”

written by Owen Jarus, which appeared in Live Science

magazine on 2016 July 16:

“The Philistines disappear from written history during the 6th century B.C. when the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II (reign ca. 605 BC – c. 562 BC) conquered the region and destroyed several cities, including Ashkelon [which was their main city].”

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Josephus and the Philistines by Mr. Cohen
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Michael Avioz wrote an essay titled: “The Philistines in Josephus’ Writings”.
In the final paragraph of this essay, which is titled “Conclusion”, he says:

               “Unlike the Egyptians, the
               Philistines no longer existed
             in Josephus’ own life-time.”

Since the famous historian Josephus lived around 2,000 years ago

in the Holy Land [which was then called the land of Judea] this

means that the Philistines were already vanished from the Holy Land

around 2,000 years ago.  Therefore, claims that the Palestinians

are descendants of the Biblical Philistines are very unlikely to be true.

SOURCE: “The Philistines in Josephus’ Writings” by Michael Avioz

www.academia.edu/22646521/The_Philistines_in_Josephus_Writings

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Where did the Philistines come from? by Mr. Cohen

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The ancient Philistines originated from the
AEGEAN area, according to the World Book
Encyclopedia, volume 15 (letter P), page 382, 2017.

The Aegean Sea is part of Greece.  Therefore,
the Philistines were Greeks. They were NOT
indigenous to the Land of Israel; they were foreign.

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Where did the Philistines live? by Mr. Cohen
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The ancient Philistines lived in what is now
southwestern Israel, according to the World Book
Encyclopedia, volume 15 (letter P), page 382, 2017.

 

Therefore, if the Palestinians have any claim
to the Land of Israel that is based on the
ancient Philistines, then that claim is limited to
southwest Israel, also known as Gaza.

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Four Quotes about Palestine

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***** QUOTE 1: *****

Zuheir Mohsen, a leader of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization),
said this in an interview with Trouw (a Dutch daily newspaper) in March 1977:

“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."

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"From the end of the Jewish state in antiquity to the beginning

of British rule, the area now designated by the name Palestine was

not a country and had no frontiers, only administrative boundaries…"

SOURCE:

Professor Bernard Lewis, Commentary Magazine, January 1975

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"There is no such thing as a Palestinian Arab nation...

Palestine is a name the Romans gave to Israel with the express

purpose of infuriating the Jews...

Why should we use the spiteful name meant to humiliate us?

The British chose to call the land they mandated Palestine,

and the Arabs picked it up as their nation's supposed ancient name,

though they couldn't even pronounce it correctly and turned it into

Falastin a fictional entity."

SOURCE: Golda Meir quoted by Sarah Honig,

Jerusalem Post, 25 November 1995

***** QUOTE 4: *****

"Palestine has never existed . . . as an autonomous entity.

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 one 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 . . .

No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make,

it will never be enough."

SOURCE: Myths of the Middle East by Joseph Farah,

an Arab-American editor and journalist,
www.WorldNetDaily.com, 11 October 2000

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Why did the Oslo peace treaty fail?

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“[The] Olso [peace treaty] also failed because the Palestinians,
while talking peace in English, continued to build hate
against Israelis in Arabic, in their mosques and textbooks.

And they continued to draw maps of a future
Palestinian state that erased Israel.” 

SOURCE: Longitudes and Attitudes (page 224)
by Thomas L. Friedman, 2002 April 7

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Articles about the Palestinians from Aish HaTorah:

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www.aish.com/jw/me/Golda-Meir-on-the-Palestinians.html

www.aish.com/shraga_blog/The_Palestinian_Money_Pit.html
 
www.aish.com/jw/me/The-Truth-about-Palestinians.html

www.aish.com/jw/me/Believing-Palestinian-Lies.html

www.aish.com/jw/mo/Staged-Palestinian-Photos.html

www.aish.com/jw/s/The_Pro-Palestinians_Real_Agenda.html

www.aish.com/jw/me/48882577.html

www.aish.com/jw/me/48897862.html

www.aish.com/jw/me/48883522.html

www.aish.com/jw/me/48908777.html
 
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More Articles about the Palestinians (miscellaneous)
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The Palestinian Connection to the Nazis
by Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, 2017 May 14
www.algemeiner.com/2017/05/14/the-palestinian-connection-to-the-nazis/
 
How a pro-Palestinian American reporter
changed his views on Israel and the conflict
by Hunter Stuart, 2017 February 15
www.jpost.com/Jerusalem-Report/A-view-from-the-frontlines-480829

Dismantling the Palestinian Lie

by Yaakov Menken,  2018 May 25
https://cross-currents.com/2018/05/25/dismantling-the-palestinian-lie/

Why Palestinian Incitement Matters
by Jonathan Rosenblum, 2009 November 5
https://cross-currents.com/2009/11/05/why-palestinian-incitement-matters/

End the False Israeli-Palestinian Parity
by Daniel Pipes, 2017 July 9  
www.algemeiner.com/2017/07/09/end-the-false-israeli-palestinian-parity/

Palestine: Failing the test of history
Martin Sherman 2018 June 6
www.jns.org/opinion/palestine-failing-the-test-of-history/

Rudy Giuliani said: Terror promotion proves
Palestinian Authority is ‘not entitled to be a state’
www.jns.org/rudy-giuliani-the-pa-is-not-entitled-to-be-a-state/

What is Palestine? Who are the Palestinians?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9ReF4UUa4E

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Mr. Patrick Condell has no Jewish ancestors

and no religion that might cause him to favor Jews.

Please read these short pro-Israel articles that

expose the Palestinians by Mr. Patrick Condell:
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http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/09/boo-hoo-palestine-by-pat-condell.html

http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/09/patronising-palestinians.html

http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-great-palestinian-lie.html

http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/09/useful-idiots-for-palestine.html

http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/09/israel-and-united-nations.html

http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/09/why-do-muslims-always-blame-jews.html
http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/09/liberal-hypocrisy-over-gaza.html

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Pro-Israel Articles from Aish HaTorah

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www.aish.com/jw/me/Ten-Ways-Israel-Is-Treated-Differently.html

www.aish.com/jw/me/13-Facts-about-Israel--the-Middle-East.html

www.aish.com/jw/s/The_Pro-Palestinians_Real_Agenda.html

www.aish.com/jw/me/Why-Are-There-Still-Palestinian-Refugees.html

www.aish.com/jw/me/The-Arabs-Real-Grievance-against-the-Jews.html

www.aish.com/jw/me/Col-Richard-Kemp-on-Israels-Moral-Army.html

www.aish.com/ho/i/Menachem-Begin-on-the-Lessons-of-the-Holocaust.html

http://5tjt.com/why-israel-is-the-worlds-best-nation-an-amazing-article-in-an-italian-paper/

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Articles Refuting the BDS Movement from Aish HaTorah
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www.aish.com/jw/me/The-BDS-Smokescreen.html

www.aish.com/jw/me/BDS-The-Attempt-to-Strangle-Israel.html

www.aish.com/jw/me/BDS-and-Anti-Semitism.html

www.aish.com/jw/me/Fighting-BDS-in-the-Name-of-Human-Rights.html

www.aish.com/jw/s/Winning-the-BDS-Battle.html

www.aish.com/jw/s/10-Ways-You-Can-Fight-BDS.html

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Articles about Media Bias against Israel from Aish HaTorah

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Why is the Media Biased?

www.aish.com/jw/mo/48917482.html

4 Reasons Why the Media is Biased against Israel:

www.aish.com/jw/mo/4-Reasons-Why-the-Media-is-Biased-against-Israel.html

Dishonest Reporting: Media Bias Against Israel

www.aish.com/jw/mo/48932327.html

The Media: Destroying Jerusalem Again

www.aish.com/shraga_blog/The-Media-Destroying-Jerusalem-Again.html

European Media and Anti-Israel Bias

www.aish.com/jw/mo/48924097.html

Palestinians: Western Media's Ignorance and Bias
www.aish.com/jw/mo/Palestinians-Western-Medias-Ignorance-and-Bias.html

Huge source of high-quality pro-Israel videos

https://www.youtube.com/user/PragerUniversity

An Insider’s Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth

by Matti Friedman, 2014/8/26

www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/183033/israel-insider-guide

SUMMARY:

This article exposes intentional anti-Israel bias in the news media.

It is still VERY relevant, even though it was written in 2014.

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Ancient Roman historians connected Jews with the Land of Israel:
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http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/05/guest-post-cornelius-tacticus.html
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/02/guest-post-josephus-vs-muslim-liars.html
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Why Israel’s 1967 Borders are Undefendable:

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www.algemeiner.com/2017/10/27/israel-cannot-withdraw-from-the-west-bank/
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/03/guest-post-why-1967-borders-are-suicide.html