Where Jews terrorist or Are they terrorist?

was puzzled for a long time about the odd belief which apparently persists in America that Palestine has somehow "always been a Jewish land." Recently an American I talked to cleared up this mystery. He pointed out that the only things most Americans know about Palestine are what they read in the Bible. It was a Jewish land in those days, they reason, and they assume it has always remained so.

Nothing could be farther from the truth. It is absurd to reach so far back into the mists of history to argue about who should have Palestine today, and I apologise for it. Yet the Jews do this, and I must reply to their "historic claim." I wonder if the world has ever seen a stranger sight than a group of people seriously pretending to claim a land because their ancestors lived there some 2,000 years ago!

If you suggest that I am biased, I invite you to read any sound history of the period and verify the facts.

Such fragmentary records as we have indicate that the Jews were wandering nomads from Iraq who moved to southern Turkey, came south to Palestine, stayed there a short time, and then passed to Egypt, where they remained about 400 years. About 1300 BC (according to your calendar) they left Egypt and gradually conquered most—but not all—of the inhabitants of Palestine.

It is significant that the Philistines—not the Jews—gave their name to the country: "Palestine" is merely the Greek form of "Philistia."

Only once, during the empire of David and Solomon, did the Jews ever control nearly—but not all—the land which is today Palestine. This empire lasted only 70 years, ending in 926 BC. Only 250 years later the Kingdom of Judah had shrunk to a small province around Jerusalem, barely a quarter of modern Palestine.

In 63 BC the Jews were conquered by Roman Pompey, and never again had even the vestige of independence. The Roman Emperor Hadrian finally wiped them out about 135 AD. He utterly destroyed Jerusalem, rebuilt under another name, and for hundreds of years no Jew was permitted to enter it. A handful of Jews remained in Palestine but the vast majority were killed or scattered to other countries, in the Diaspora, or the Great Dispersion. From that time Palestine ceased to be a Jewish country, in any conceivable sense.

This was 1,815 years ago, and yet the Jews solemnly pretend they still own Palestine! If such fantasy were allowed, how the map of the world would dance about!

Italians might claim England, which the Romans held so long. England might claim France, "homeland" of the conquering Normans. And the French Normans might claim Norway, where their ancestors originated. And incidentally, we Arabs might claim Spain, which we held for 700 years.

Many Mexicans might claim Spain, "homeland" of their forefathers. They might even claim Texas, which was Mexican until 100 years ago. And suppose the American Indians claimed the "homeland" of which they were the sole, native, and ancient occupants until only some 450 years ago!

I am not being facetious. All these claims are just as valid—or just as fantastic—as the Jewish "historic connection" with Palestine. Most are more valid.

In any event, the great Moslem expansion about 650 AD finally settled things. It dominated Palestine completely. From that day on, Palestine was solidly Arabic in population, language, and religion. When British armies entered the country during the last war, they found 500,000 Arabs and only 65,000 Jews.

If solid, uninterrupted Arab occupation for nearly 1,300 years does not make a country "Arab", what does?

The Jews say, and rightly, that Palestine is the home of their religion. It is likewise the birthplace of Christianity, but would any Christian nation claim it on that account? In passing, let me say that the Christian Arabs—and there are many hundreds of thousands of them in the Arab World—are in absolute agreement with all other Arabs in opposing the Zionist invasion of Palestine.

May I also point out that Jerusalem is, after Mecca and Medina, the holiest place in Islam. In fact, in the early days of our religion, Moslems prayed toward Jerusalem instead of Mecca.

The Jewish "religious claim" to Palestine is as absurd as the "historic claim." The Holy Places, sacred to three great religions, must be open to all, the monopoly of none. Let us not confuse religion and politics.

We are told that we are inhumane and heartless because do not accept with open arms the perhaps 200,000 Jews in Europe who suffered so frightfully under Nazi cruelty, and who even now—almost three years after war’s end—still languish in cold, depressing camps.

Terrorism is defined as the unlawful use of force designed to intimidate or coerce a people usually for political/ideological purposes....the key word being UNLAWFUL. Of all your examples, the only one that would intimidate the Palestinians would be the Deir Yassin event. This sounds like terrorism to me. However, the rest are merely targeted assassinations and no Palestinian would say, "They just killed Lord Moyne. I must be next!"

Once Israel became a nation, the very same acts now become lawful... precisely because it is a nation. As such, you can call them acts of war but you can no longer call them terrorism.

While the Palestinians or Hamas or Fatah or... are not a nation, their acts will continue to be called terrorism and rightly so. These groups are accountable to no one. Should the Palestinians get an independent homeland and continue to fire rockets at civilians, then that would be considered an act of war (and not terrorism).

No hypocrisy and no contradictions.

they invented terrorism!!!!

and dont forget the Israeli American man who entered a mosque while Muslims were praying and sprayed them with bullets. he killed 29 Muslims inside the mosque.

that was a few years back. and guess what happened to him? the trial was held here in NYC and was found not guilty for mental issues. they said he was mentally sick that's why he killed 29 people thousands of miles away from his home land.

i guess the that idiot all the way up there who answered your question never heard of the OCCUPIED territory!!! the west bank and east Jerusalem and the Golan heights. it really bothers me to see these ignorants rushing to answer questions when they dont even know what they are talking about. call it terrorism call it anti Semitisim call it what ever you wanna call it. the Palestinians will not rest until the Zionists pull out of there occupied land and release those so called criminals in there prisons that dont exceed 16 years old.

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"arabs are using their tactics to get their homeland back." Back from what? Israel owns the land its on? Have you read the UN charter from 1948 giving Israel its statehood??

This statement should read "arabs are using [terrorism because they don't like the UN charter giving Israel its statehood]

If those people you mentioned used force prior to the charter , I agree with you, they need to be prosecuted.

But the Muslims held in Israeli jails are lawbreakers, and need to be prosecuted for their crimes. (Murders, suicide bombers, bombmakers etc etc)

Yeah of course they are. All they ever do is invade and take over. They don't want their "homeland" because they really don't have a homeland. These people are nomads who do nothing but wonder and destroy.

You haven't given much room for manouvering with this question, so I'll leave it to others with a sharper mind than me.

Dude, you must be radical Muslim! You have no support or evidence for what you are alleging. Read the history and then open your mouth to spit out garbage-

Boy you got some explaining, how about footnoting some of this crap