Avoiding accountability is the Palestinian national trait, to the extent one can call a cluster of Islamist terrorists a nation. And the broader "international community" enables this. It must stop.
A brilliant essay. There is one small thing I’d like to add: I met many young Palestinians in the West Bank, who would have been quite capable of building something new, if given the chance. But disillusioned with their epically corrupt leadership, sandwiched in between Radicals, the Military, and an oppressive collective straight jacket of Israel-hatred, those who could, left - to the UAE, Dubai, America. It was their only option for a half decent future.
The problem that no one pays attention to is that Arab society in the territories is gradually radicalizing these people. The system works like this: if you support the rules of the game of "oppressed victims", you can get approval or promotion, if you do not support, you are doomed to hard unskilled labor, and if you resist and want to change your life for the better, you fall under repression.
The usual scheme of a kleptocratic semi-feudal system of governance.
Attempts to move away from the ideology of the victim and build a more developed independent society are unprofitable for the authorities of the autonomy, religious figures, foreign investors in terrorism, and even international and humanitarian organizations that are interested in the eternal continuation of the suffering of the Arabs in the territories because it brings superprofits that they cannot refuse.
Arabs who want to build a society living in peace and free from autocracies and dictatorships have no chance in the fight against these forces.
Therefore, emigration and integration into other societies is the only way for these people.
That’s a very good observation. The Arab collective mentality is a mental straight jacket out of which you can only wiggle yourself out if you get a chance to flee and start anew.
80 years of refugee status, criminal. No other people have been used this way. Let them return to Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan. This is not Israel’s issue to fix
This is an excellent summary of the real history of the "Palestinian" situation. The one other important factor that I would add is that during WWII the Arabs who were living in the area that became Israel and Jordan, and who were represented by The Grand Mufti, who was appointed by the British, threw the Arabs' allegiance in with the Nazis, while himself living in a very comfortable situation in Lebanon, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. When Germany was defeated he took up residence in Cairo, then Beirut.
This part of the story is yet another example of these Arabs putting themselves on the losing side of history. None of their brethren in Jordan, Egypt, or Lebanon wanted to take this group in, but this is never mentioned, nor is their support of the Nazis.
When it comes to Gaza I dont even like calling them "Palestinians" as it only serves to further all the bullshit propaganda narratives being perpetuated largely in part by the recently discovered Russian disinformation war on the West.
Remember before October 7th happened when Israel was considering supplying Ukraine with weapons and Russian issued a stern warning saying that Israel would regret it?
Well here we are. In light of the recently discovered vast Russian misinformation campaign in the West, all the dots are starting to connect. The demonstrators sowing discord is precisely the poison pill needed to advance this endeavor.
As far as Israel is concerned, it should have booted out all the inhabitants of the region after 1967 and sent them packing to Egypt and every other country that participated in the attack.
But today Gaza does exist by Israel's grace. So just call them Gazan Refugees instead? Or something else entirely?
Gaza is Palestine as much as Oklahoma is Texas and we need to stop giving oxygen to anything that is trying to destroy us.
Yes, I think it has but everything is hinging on who wins the US presidential election. Everything was going along swimmingly with Iran being kept in c
heck until the Obama, Biden, Harris axis with their Trump derangement syndrome chose to undermine anything Trump did no matter how good it was. How anyone with a calibrated moral compass that supports Israel could vote in Harris is beyond me.
Because Trump is a sociopathic narcissist who wants to be king. That’s how. Hopefully his history with McDonald’s and the stress of perhaps losing will catch up with him. Abraham accords are great. More!!!! Make no mistake I don’t love everything about the Dems but we can vote them out in four years if we still have a democracy.
All you say is true. But Israel perhaps bears some responsibility. Would the US or France oR the UK or Canada of any country for that matter allow themselves to be treated like this? Bong Iran back to the Bronze Age ( oil fields mostly), as well as Hezbollah and Houthis and be done with it. Less people will die in the long run. For every hostage killed send five terrorist prisoners back in body bags - and if including pig skins in the bags would drive them crazy, then add those. The world will hate us but they hate us anyway. And btw, if the US cuts back on arms, cut back on sharing intelligence. C’mon end this already - but not by giving in.
Are there any historians who can find other examples of when an nvaded country fought back, gained land but ended up giving it back?? Also, any other countries that people said should not fight back after being invaded? What was the ratio of civilian deaths to the murdered at Pearl Harbour? 265:1? After 9/11? I thought that was 3:1. https://www.freedomtoffend.com/p/new-jew-box-ai-tool-designed-to-steer?r=iy2ds&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
It must stop? You’re right. So what to do? Shout to the choir about the injustice of it all? How’s that working for us?
Admit it is too late to correct OUR mistakes (not killing Arafat, reclaiming the West Bank from Jordan, somehow helping a new group of reprehensibles called Hamas to blunt the actions of Fatah)etc. etc.
Recognize the G-d damn state of Palestine. Let them have their little flags, little goose stepping army, silly stamps. BUT now that they are a “country” and not a “disputed territory”, their next act of terror will be classified as an “act of war.”
An act of war now will be countered by a leveling of their country QUICKLY AND LEGALLY before the world has a chance to chastise the victim. And after their country is rebuilt, they will attack again because, like the fable of the scorpion it is in their nature. And again they will be destroyed QUICKLY AND LEGALLY. And again and again. Problem solved.
Ah, the greatest multi-faced coin is "History" ...... how that can toyed with depending on your view and of course on who wins. Nachum, I read your wonderful account of the past and I said to myself "Papa J, why are there decent people out there who take a negative view of Israel and its past"? So I start with what we call The War of Independence and what the other side calls Nakba. I go to Wikipedia which I think most simple people like me go to first and I look up Nakba. Nachum, my boy, it does not look good for our team at all. I am going to post just one paragraph
The 1948 Nakba
The central facts of the Nakba during the 1948 Palestine war are not disputed.[47]
About 750,000 Palestinians—over 80% of the population in what would become the State of Israel—were expelled or fled from their homes and became refugees.[6] Eleven Arab urban neighborhoods and over 500 villages were destroyed or depopulated.[7] Thousands of Palestinians were killed in dozens of massacres.[48] About a dozen rapes of Palestinians by regular and irregular Israeli military forces have been documented, and more are suspected.[49] Israelis used psychological warfare tactics to frighten Palestinians into flight, including targeted violence, whispering campaigns, radio broadcasts, and loudspeaker vans.[50] Looting by Israeli soldiers and civilians of Palestinian homes, business, farms, artwork, books, and archives was widespread.[51]
So, is there some truth in this? Is it all false? Are our hands clean?
The point is that this is Wikipedia, a site that everybody goes to and this is just one of the negative things that they read..
The Jewish People built Israel. We could have wallowed in Victim culture after The Holocaust. But we did not. We built Israel.
This is as clear and concise an accounting of factual history as I've found. Bravo amd job well done.
Am Yisroel Chai!
A brilliant essay. There is one small thing I’d like to add: I met many young Palestinians in the West Bank, who would have been quite capable of building something new, if given the chance. But disillusioned with their epically corrupt leadership, sandwiched in between Radicals, the Military, and an oppressive collective straight jacket of Israel-hatred, those who could, left - to the UAE, Dubai, America. It was their only option for a half decent future.
The problem that no one pays attention to is that Arab society in the territories is gradually radicalizing these people. The system works like this: if you support the rules of the game of "oppressed victims", you can get approval or promotion, if you do not support, you are doomed to hard unskilled labor, and if you resist and want to change your life for the better, you fall under repression.
The usual scheme of a kleptocratic semi-feudal system of governance.
Attempts to move away from the ideology of the victim and build a more developed independent society are unprofitable for the authorities of the autonomy, religious figures, foreign investors in terrorism, and even international and humanitarian organizations that are interested in the eternal continuation of the suffering of the Arabs in the territories because it brings superprofits that they cannot refuse.
Arabs who want to build a society living in peace and free from autocracies and dictatorships have no chance in the fight against these forces.
Therefore, emigration and integration into other societies is the only way for these people.
That’s a very good observation. The Arab collective mentality is a mental straight jacket out of which you can only wiggle yourself out if you get a chance to flee and start anew.
There truly is no history, no nation, for ‘Palestinians’ to cling to, look back on, aspire to rebuild. Merely hate, terrorism, violence toward Jews.
Once again, an outstanding piece by Nachum Kaplan! Kol Hakavod!!
A brilliant succinct essay. Well done.
80 years of refugee status, criminal. No other people have been used this way. Let them return to Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan. This is not Israel’s issue to fix
Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan doesn’t want them. They’re troublemakers.
Or are they serving as a proxy for Iran and Qatar and truly need to be resettled and taken out of this bind?
This is an excellent summary of the real history of the "Palestinian" situation. The one other important factor that I would add is that during WWII the Arabs who were living in the area that became Israel and Jordan, and who were represented by The Grand Mufti, who was appointed by the British, threw the Arabs' allegiance in with the Nazis, while himself living in a very comfortable situation in Lebanon, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. When Germany was defeated he took up residence in Cairo, then Beirut.
This part of the story is yet another example of these Arabs putting themselves on the losing side of history. None of their brethren in Jordan, Egypt, or Lebanon wanted to take this group in, but this is never mentioned, nor is their support of the Nazis.
Thank you for a great piece!
There is no “P” in the Arabic alphabet. Where do “P”Palestinians come from? Exactly. Credit - Eve Barlow for the linguistic insight.
When it comes to Gaza I dont even like calling them "Palestinians" as it only serves to further all the bullshit propaganda narratives being perpetuated largely in part by the recently discovered Russian disinformation war on the West.
Remember before October 7th happened when Israel was considering supplying Ukraine with weapons and Russian issued a stern warning saying that Israel would regret it?
Well here we are. In light of the recently discovered vast Russian misinformation campaign in the West, all the dots are starting to connect. The demonstrators sowing discord is precisely the poison pill needed to advance this endeavor.
As far as Israel is concerned, it should have booted out all the inhabitants of the region after 1967 and sent them packing to Egypt and every other country that participated in the attack.
But today Gaza does exist by Israel's grace. So just call them Gazan Refugees instead? Or something else entirely?
Gaza is Palestine as much as Oklahoma is Texas and we need to stop giving oxygen to anything that is trying to destroy us.
Have the Abraham Accords’s had at any effect at all? It seemed so positive in the beginning but then of course, October 7.
Yes, I think it has but everything is hinging on who wins the US presidential election. Everything was going along swimmingly with Iran being kept in c
heck until the Obama, Biden, Harris axis with their Trump derangement syndrome chose to undermine anything Trump did no matter how good it was. How anyone with a calibrated moral compass that supports Israel could vote in Harris is beyond me.
Because Trump is a sociopathic narcissist who wants to be king. That’s how. Hopefully his history with McDonald’s and the stress of perhaps losing will catch up with him. Abraham accords are great. More!!!! Make no mistake I don’t love everything about the Dems but we can vote them out in four years if we still have a democracy.
I feel your pain on this one. Incredible how the two political parties were totally unable to come up with decent candidates.
All you say is true. But Israel perhaps bears some responsibility. Would the US or France oR the UK or Canada of any country for that matter allow themselves to be treated like this? Bong Iran back to the Bronze Age ( oil fields mostly), as well as Hezbollah and Houthis and be done with it. Less people will die in the long run. For every hostage killed send five terrorist prisoners back in body bags - and if including pig skins in the bags would drive them crazy, then add those. The world will hate us but they hate us anyway. And btw, if the US cuts back on arms, cut back on sharing intelligence. C’mon end this already - but not by giving in.
Outstanding article, it needs to be shared widely.
Are there any historians who can find other examples of when an nvaded country fought back, gained land but ended up giving it back?? Also, any other countries that people said should not fight back after being invaded? What was the ratio of civilian deaths to the murdered at Pearl Harbour? 265:1? After 9/11? I thought that was 3:1. https://www.freedomtoffend.com/p/new-jew-box-ai-tool-designed-to-steer?r=iy2ds&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
That was so well stated! Every 'palestinian' should be made to read it at gun point if necessary.
It must stop? You’re right. So what to do? Shout to the choir about the injustice of it all? How’s that working for us?
Admit it is too late to correct OUR mistakes (not killing Arafat, reclaiming the West Bank from Jordan, somehow helping a new group of reprehensibles called Hamas to blunt the actions of Fatah)etc. etc.
Recognize the G-d damn state of Palestine. Let them have their little flags, little goose stepping army, silly stamps. BUT now that they are a “country” and not a “disputed territory”, their next act of terror will be classified as an “act of war.”
An act of war now will be countered by a leveling of their country QUICKLY AND LEGALLY before the world has a chance to chastise the victim. And after their country is rebuilt, they will attack again because, like the fable of the scorpion it is in their nature. And again they will be destroyed QUICKLY AND LEGALLY. And again and again. Problem solved.
Ah, the greatest multi-faced coin is "History" ...... how that can toyed with depending on your view and of course on who wins. Nachum, I read your wonderful account of the past and I said to myself "Papa J, why are there decent people out there who take a negative view of Israel and its past"? So I start with what we call The War of Independence and what the other side calls Nakba. I go to Wikipedia which I think most simple people like me go to first and I look up Nakba. Nachum, my boy, it does not look good for our team at all. I am going to post just one paragraph
The 1948 Nakba
The central facts of the Nakba during the 1948 Palestine war are not disputed.[47]
About 750,000 Palestinians—over 80% of the population in what would become the State of Israel—were expelled or fled from their homes and became refugees.[6] Eleven Arab urban neighborhoods and over 500 villages were destroyed or depopulated.[7] Thousands of Palestinians were killed in dozens of massacres.[48] About a dozen rapes of Palestinians by regular and irregular Israeli military forces have been documented, and more are suspected.[49] Israelis used psychological warfare tactics to frighten Palestinians into flight, including targeted violence, whispering campaigns, radio broadcasts, and loudspeaker vans.[50] Looting by Israeli soldiers and civilians of Palestinian homes, business, farms, artwork, books, and archives was widespread.[51]
So, is there some truth in this? Is it all false? Are our hands clean?
The point is that this is Wikipedia, a site that everybody goes to and this is just one of the negative things that they read..
Papa j