I enjoyed reading your article, Michael. You assume (as we all do) that the Oslo Accords would have brought about a lasting peace? Not so sure about that. In addition, based on numerous surveys, a majority of the Arabs in Gaza also appear to support Hamas. Perhaps, it's because they don't have any choice. But, there has been much evidence of "Gazans" as well as UNRWA being directly involved in this conflict. The World will soon see a very very different approach to the MidEast starting on 1/20/25! The people living in the MidEast and the World (for that matter) deserve the right to live under peace and prosperity. Good must always defeat EVIL!!
The UNRWA is a farce... they are part and parcel of the globalist evil that threatens both Israel and the West. So is the Secretary General, who should be dragged out of UN HQ on January 20th and arrested for conspiracy to commit treason. His interference with American sovereignty is not covered by diplomatic immunity... it's a war crime.
Good essay and true. Notice that in negotiations with Hamas, there is never a mention of a "two-state solution." Because Hamas would reject that, too. The notion of a two-state solution is dead and gone. After 75 years, it's beyond foolish to keep trying. The truth about what Hamas and Iran and all the terrorists really want is clear: Israel and the Jews dead and gone, and the rest of Western Civilization, too. They state it themselves, over and over and over. The "masses" of the West are just starting to wake up to this fact (too slowly). Peace in the Middle East (and for the West) will only be achieved with relentless and complete neutralization of Iran and its terror proxies. Israel is doing a great job of reaching that goal alone, and beginning January 20th, they'll be able to make more progress, more quickly. As for the Arabs who call themselves "Palestinians,"--perhaps they'll be dispersed into Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the coming "new" Iran--but they surely won't be given Israeli land again. Not only do they NOT want that, but the Gaza experiment proved a deadly failure and must never be repeated. Never Again.
As Vegetius said many centuries ago, let he who desires peace prepare for war. The "Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam", better known as the Tamil Tigers, were a bunch of murderers committed to their enemies' death or their own. The government of Sri Lanka decided to grant their wish.
As to there being "an infectious energy in their activism.", I respectfully disagree. What they call activism is mere bullying. Notice that they never do it unless they far outnumber the target of their bullying, namely peaceful Jews.
As for whether you're allowed to defend yourself when the Palestinians have vowed to murder each and every one of you, I feel like not only are you allowed to defend yourself, you are allowed to attack first. If your next door neighbor at your home kept threatening you with a gun, I think you have a responsibility to your family to do something. Not just respond after they've murdered them.
Great piece. I would ask -- I sincerely don't know, although I can guess -- why did Arafat lie that one time? Did Clinton ask him, I wonder? And was Arafat planning that particular lie all along? I would guess that Arafat never intended to sign the Oslo Accords; it was a distraction, an obfuscation, something he could twist later on to make Israel somehow look bad. And yes, he was planing that lie all along. Which means, it was all a lie. Always.
Several possibilities. I'll describe one that is likely giving Arafat (Yimakh Shemo) far more credit than he deserves. He figured if he signed the peace treaty, he'd be assassinated.
That's what happened to Sadat after he signed Camp David and Egypt got back the Sinai.
The fundamental disconnect has always been the West’s refusal to take what the Arabs tell themselves seriously. Because it is unpalatable to us, we wish it away by calling it “rhetoric” or exaggeration that is part of their culture but can otherwise be dismissed - a viewpoint that is redolent of the racism of low expectations.
Far too many (including Israelis) and for far too long, the aspiration for peace blinded everyone to a harsh fact that was expressed in all of its horror on October 7: the Arab rejection of Jewish rights and historical attachment to their land is a theological, not a political, issue. To allow Israel to remain is not only an affront to Islam but strikes at its foundational claim of being the final, true revealed religion whose destiny is to replace all others. And, to put things in perspective, there still remain groups in Christianity who deal with this same issue (if anyone is in doubt, they can listen to some of Jimmy Carter’s Sunday school “lessons” where he spouts old line antisemitism).
One must recall that it was the Soviet Union, in an effort to divide the West, that recast the Arab-Israeli conflict in language meant to appeal to the Western Leftists. Out with religion, in with “anti-colonialism”, “anti-imperialism” and “national liberation.”
Arafat began his career as a fedayeen, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood before he was plucked from obscurity to lead the PLO. Once the Oslo Accords were signed, an agreement that Edward Said (who wrote “Orientalism” notwithstanding his expertise being European literature) denounced as treason, Arafat famously (but in Arabic) explained that the Accords should be seen as a modern Treaty of Hudaybiyyah - a pause (hudna, to use the preferred Arabic term) to regroup and attack when your chances of success are great, all following the model set by Mohammed in that treaty.
Arafat always subscribed to the “phased strategy” of taking what’s on offer, not end the conflict and, at a propitious moment, strike the fatal blow. What Clinton and Barak negotiated was an “end of conflict” agreement, something that Arafat could never accept - and didn’t. Though he also shocked Clinton with his claim that there was never a Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount.
Since then, such “Temple Denial” has become a mainstay of the Palestinian narrative, even though it necessarily turns the Gospel story of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem into some Zionist lie. Again, the Christian world overlooks this affront as some meaningless language that requires no refutation, a stance that has permitted its entrenchment in the service of denying all Jewish historical connection to the land.
The key to Arab rejectionism is contained in one simple phrase that the Palestinians steadfastly refuse to utter, “two states for two peoples.” In fact, when Netanyahu insisted on it, he was the one pilloried in the media as a peace obstructionist.
The only differences between the PA and Hamas (and its terror fellow travelers) is over means not ends. They all want Israel gone, the only real disagreement among them is over methods and timing. They remain united in the cause of Israel’s annihilation which is one reason that the PA has not and will never denounce Hamas’ outrage against humanity on October 7. Like the majority of Palestinians today, what rankles is the military failure, not the concept itself. It’s a red flag one ignores at one’s own peril at this point.
As a final detail, President Clinton’s explanation of what happened at Camp David is neither new nor previously unknown. Dennis Ross wrote about it years ago. And who tried to dispute the narrative, whitewash Arafat and lay all blame at the feet of Israel? Robert Malley, the same person who surrendered all of the US’s negotiating leverage in the JCPOA negotiations under President Obama and was even more supine in the failed negotiations under President Biden. Perhaps under the Trump Administration, the public will finally learn why he had his security clearance terminated.
The overall point, though, is that the Arab countries respect a strong and confident Israel and, while they will never love it (absent an Islamic reformation), they will, as the Abraham Accords confirm, establish economic and other relations that are mutually beneficial.
If the Palestinian veto is permanently lifted, that might move them toward a “two state for two peoples” mindset. Odds are, that transformation will occur too late and the Palestinians as a “people” will have already disappeared into the general Arab population from which they arose. Only time will tell how this will all work out.
Unfortunately, many of the people I have tried to present these facts tell me that they either do not believe those facts and when they are given they refuse to accept them and say. Or it is nothing but Jewish propaganda, "the Jews control the media" or they say that it is old history, therefore irrelevant, and all it matters is the current Israeli "murder" of the "innocent Palestinians"
The (possibly?) True History of the Kabba in Mecca
The Psalms from the time of King David include the following reference to the ancient site of Bakha, better known today as Mecca.
Psalm 84:
Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. those Who passing through the valley of the Bakha, they make it a spring; Also blessing the first rain will give. They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
But from where do the Hebrews from the Kingdom of David in Israel gain personal knowledge of the ancient name for Mecca?
A recent discovery in the desert along the borders of Jordan and Saudi Arabia have revealed the connection.
Several scrolls found in this region have recently been discovered uncovering a link previously unknown.
The texts were found along what was considered a lost trade route between the ancient Kingdom of Israel and the civilizations in the upper Nile region. The route followed the coast south along the Arabian peninsula.
It is the contents of the texts that are most compelling. One of the scrolls contains a before unknown chapter in the story of Avraham, the father of the Jewish people.
Many know the story of how Avram fled his father’s house in Ur, and was guided by God to the land of Israel. But little was known about that journey until now.
According to the scroll, Avram followed an established trade route along the coast of the Arabian peninsula leading him to Bakha. There, overcome by dehydration and constipation, Avram collapsed and called out to the lord for relief. Hearing his cries of pain, God sent Raphael to Bakha to aid Avram. Raphael tapped a dried root in the ground and a fig appeared at the tip of the root. Avram ate the fig, and his bowels were relieved. Where the root was, a spring appeared, and Avram drank freely. Avram then continued on his journey to the promised land.
The scroll explains that the movement that Avram left behind was miraculously petrified, and shined.
A local legend claimed the petrified turd of Avram had magical powers. Later, the Muslims who came to dominate the region would claim the stone feces as their own, and built the Kabba around it.
This discovery is significant on two main points:
1. The holy site of Mecca is first holy to Jews, so the Muslims should vacate the site in deference to Jewish claims which predate those of the Muslims.
2. The Muslims are worshipping the petrified turd of a Jew.
They never came close. Arafat never had any intention of signing an agreement that ended the conflict short of the goal of ending Israel. And if he did it would be as fake as a Hamas ceasefire.
Boy,We were very lucky that Arafat said no. Think of the matzah we would be in today if he had said yes to this poorly thought out agreement. Of course he had never intended to say yes and this agreement as reported in his made for Arab speeches was just one more step to liquidating the Jewish state. Instead of peace, this arch terrorist, who managed to fool just about everyone launched the pre planned 2nd Intifada with the loss of thousands of Jewish lives
Thank you, Michael. A beautiful account of an ugly present day and how we got here. It encapsulates an understanding that so many of us achieved, post October 7th. There may never be peace, but Israel and the Jews who support it from the Diaspora, are strong, proud, and planning to hang around.
I enjoyed reading your article, Michael. You assume (as we all do) that the Oslo Accords would have brought about a lasting peace? Not so sure about that. In addition, based on numerous surveys, a majority of the Arabs in Gaza also appear to support Hamas. Perhaps, it's because they don't have any choice. But, there has been much evidence of "Gazans" as well as UNRWA being directly involved in this conflict. The World will soon see a very very different approach to the MidEast starting on 1/20/25! The people living in the MidEast and the World (for that matter) deserve the right to live under peace and prosperity. Good must always defeat EVIL!!
The UNRWA is a farce... they are part and parcel of the globalist evil that threatens both Israel and the West. So is the Secretary General, who should be dragged out of UN HQ on January 20th and arrested for conspiracy to commit treason. His interference with American sovereignty is not covered by diplomatic immunity... it's a war crime.
Josh — THANKS for this!! We at JEWDICIOUS love Future of Jewish! https://jewdicious.substack.com/
Good essay and true. Notice that in negotiations with Hamas, there is never a mention of a "two-state solution." Because Hamas would reject that, too. The notion of a two-state solution is dead and gone. After 75 years, it's beyond foolish to keep trying. The truth about what Hamas and Iran and all the terrorists really want is clear: Israel and the Jews dead and gone, and the rest of Western Civilization, too. They state it themselves, over and over and over. The "masses" of the West are just starting to wake up to this fact (too slowly). Peace in the Middle East (and for the West) will only be achieved with relentless and complete neutralization of Iran and its terror proxies. Israel is doing a great job of reaching that goal alone, and beginning January 20th, they'll be able to make more progress, more quickly. As for the Arabs who call themselves "Palestinians,"--perhaps they'll be dispersed into Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the coming "new" Iran--but they surely won't be given Israeli land again. Not only do they NOT want that, but the Gaza experiment proved a deadly failure and must never be repeated. Never Again.
The neighboring countries never wanted the Palestinians.😔
correct. They all kicked them out. Too bad!--the Gazans cannot live as Israel's responsibility anymore.
They still don't and with good reason. (Interestingly, most of the "Palestineans" have or had Egyptian or Jordanian passports or roots).
As Vegetius said many centuries ago, let he who desires peace prepare for war. The "Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam", better known as the Tamil Tigers, were a bunch of murderers committed to their enemies' death or their own. The government of Sri Lanka decided to grant their wish.
As to there being "an infectious energy in their activism.", I respectfully disagree. What they call activism is mere bullying. Notice that they never do it unless they far outnumber the target of their bullying, namely peaceful Jews.
As for whether you're allowed to defend yourself when the Palestinians have vowed to murder each and every one of you, I feel like not only are you allowed to defend yourself, you are allowed to attack first. If your next door neighbor at your home kept threatening you with a gun, I think you have a responsibility to your family to do something. Not just respond after they've murdered them.
Great piece. I would ask -- I sincerely don't know, although I can guess -- why did Arafat lie that one time? Did Clinton ask him, I wonder? And was Arafat planning that particular lie all along? I would guess that Arafat never intended to sign the Oslo Accords; it was a distraction, an obfuscation, something he could twist later on to make Israel somehow look bad. And yes, he was planing that lie all along. Which means, it was all a lie. Always.
Several possibilities. I'll describe one that is likely giving Arafat (Yimakh Shemo) far more credit than he deserves. He figured if he signed the peace treaty, he'd be assassinated.
That's what happened to Sadat after he signed Camp David and Egypt got back the Sinai.
Of course!
The fundamental disconnect has always been the West’s refusal to take what the Arabs tell themselves seriously. Because it is unpalatable to us, we wish it away by calling it “rhetoric” or exaggeration that is part of their culture but can otherwise be dismissed - a viewpoint that is redolent of the racism of low expectations.
Far too many (including Israelis) and for far too long, the aspiration for peace blinded everyone to a harsh fact that was expressed in all of its horror on October 7: the Arab rejection of Jewish rights and historical attachment to their land is a theological, not a political, issue. To allow Israel to remain is not only an affront to Islam but strikes at its foundational claim of being the final, true revealed religion whose destiny is to replace all others. And, to put things in perspective, there still remain groups in Christianity who deal with this same issue (if anyone is in doubt, they can listen to some of Jimmy Carter’s Sunday school “lessons” where he spouts old line antisemitism).
One must recall that it was the Soviet Union, in an effort to divide the West, that recast the Arab-Israeli conflict in language meant to appeal to the Western Leftists. Out with religion, in with “anti-colonialism”, “anti-imperialism” and “national liberation.”
Arafat began his career as a fedayeen, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood before he was plucked from obscurity to lead the PLO. Once the Oslo Accords were signed, an agreement that Edward Said (who wrote “Orientalism” notwithstanding his expertise being European literature) denounced as treason, Arafat famously (but in Arabic) explained that the Accords should be seen as a modern Treaty of Hudaybiyyah - a pause (hudna, to use the preferred Arabic term) to regroup and attack when your chances of success are great, all following the model set by Mohammed in that treaty.
Arafat always subscribed to the “phased strategy” of taking what’s on offer, not end the conflict and, at a propitious moment, strike the fatal blow. What Clinton and Barak negotiated was an “end of conflict” agreement, something that Arafat could never accept - and didn’t. Though he also shocked Clinton with his claim that there was never a Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount.
Since then, such “Temple Denial” has become a mainstay of the Palestinian narrative, even though it necessarily turns the Gospel story of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem into some Zionist lie. Again, the Christian world overlooks this affront as some meaningless language that requires no refutation, a stance that has permitted its entrenchment in the service of denying all Jewish historical connection to the land.
The key to Arab rejectionism is contained in one simple phrase that the Palestinians steadfastly refuse to utter, “two states for two peoples.” In fact, when Netanyahu insisted on it, he was the one pilloried in the media as a peace obstructionist.
The only differences between the PA and Hamas (and its terror fellow travelers) is over means not ends. They all want Israel gone, the only real disagreement among them is over methods and timing. They remain united in the cause of Israel’s annihilation which is one reason that the PA has not and will never denounce Hamas’ outrage against humanity on October 7. Like the majority of Palestinians today, what rankles is the military failure, not the concept itself. It’s a red flag one ignores at one’s own peril at this point.
As a final detail, President Clinton’s explanation of what happened at Camp David is neither new nor previously unknown. Dennis Ross wrote about it years ago. And who tried to dispute the narrative, whitewash Arafat and lay all blame at the feet of Israel? Robert Malley, the same person who surrendered all of the US’s negotiating leverage in the JCPOA negotiations under President Obama and was even more supine in the failed negotiations under President Biden. Perhaps under the Trump Administration, the public will finally learn why he had his security clearance terminated.
The overall point, though, is that the Arab countries respect a strong and confident Israel and, while they will never love it (absent an Islamic reformation), they will, as the Abraham Accords confirm, establish economic and other relations that are mutually beneficial.
If the Palestinian veto is permanently lifted, that might move them toward a “two state for two peoples” mindset. Odds are, that transformation will occur too late and the Palestinians as a “people” will have already disappeared into the general Arab population from which they arose. Only time will tell how this will all work out.
I get really annoyed sometimes that I can’t save and bookmark comments and this is one of those times
Unfortunately, many of the people I have tried to present these facts tell me that they either do not believe those facts and when they are given they refuse to accept them and say. Or it is nothing but Jewish propaganda, "the Jews control the media" or they say that it is old history, therefore irrelevant, and all it matters is the current Israeli "murder" of the "innocent Palestinians"
You can’t really argue with these people. They’re not open to any other viewpoint.
Brilliant. Sadly.
This is intriguing and/or hilarious.
from Shmuel Ben Levi
The (possibly?) True History of the Kabba in Mecca
The Psalms from the time of King David include the following reference to the ancient site of Bakha, better known today as Mecca.
Psalm 84:
Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. those Who passing through the valley of the Bakha, they make it a spring; Also blessing the first rain will give. They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
But from where do the Hebrews from the Kingdom of David in Israel gain personal knowledge of the ancient name for Mecca?
A recent discovery in the desert along the borders of Jordan and Saudi Arabia have revealed the connection.
Several scrolls found in this region have recently been discovered uncovering a link previously unknown.
The texts were found along what was considered a lost trade route between the ancient Kingdom of Israel and the civilizations in the upper Nile region. The route followed the coast south along the Arabian peninsula.
It is the contents of the texts that are most compelling. One of the scrolls contains a before unknown chapter in the story of Avraham, the father of the Jewish people.
Many know the story of how Avram fled his father’s house in Ur, and was guided by God to the land of Israel. But little was known about that journey until now.
According to the scroll, Avram followed an established trade route along the coast of the Arabian peninsula leading him to Bakha. There, overcome by dehydration and constipation, Avram collapsed and called out to the lord for relief. Hearing his cries of pain, God sent Raphael to Bakha to aid Avram. Raphael tapped a dried root in the ground and a fig appeared at the tip of the root. Avram ate the fig, and his bowels were relieved. Where the root was, a spring appeared, and Avram drank freely. Avram then continued on his journey to the promised land.
The scroll explains that the movement that Avram left behind was miraculously petrified, and shined.
A local legend claimed the petrified turd of Avram had magical powers. Later, the Muslims who came to dominate the region would claim the stone feces as their own, and built the Kabba around it.
This discovery is significant on two main points:
1. The holy site of Mecca is first holy to Jews, so the Muslims should vacate the site in deference to Jewish claims which predate those of the Muslims.
2. The Muslims are worshipping the petrified turd of a Jew.
Excellent, Charles. I think JEWDICIOUS might be right up your alley too... https://jewdicious.substack.com
Charles, what an excellent comment. Do you write full article posts on Substack??
Doug, saying “never came close” belies history and logic. Help me here and be reasonable. It’s as close as they’ve come in 75 years, just factually.
Ehud Barack-what a piece of garbage!!! Look how proud he looks shaking hand of mist known terrorist, responsible for loss of countless Jewish lives!!!
They never came close. Arafat never had any intention of signing an agreement that ended the conflict short of the goal of ending Israel. And if he did it would be as fake as a Hamas ceasefire.
Boy,We were very lucky that Arafat said no. Think of the matzah we would be in today if he had said yes to this poorly thought out agreement. Of course he had never intended to say yes and this agreement as reported in his made for Arab speeches was just one more step to liquidating the Jewish state. Instead of peace, this arch terrorist, who managed to fool just about everyone launched the pre planned 2nd Intifada with the loss of thousands of Jewish lives
Thank you, Michael. A beautiful account of an ugly present day and how we got here. It encapsulates an understanding that so many of us achieved, post October 7th. There may never be peace, but Israel and the Jews who support it from the Diaspora, are strong, proud, and planning to hang around.