Recently-Opened Archives Prove Arabs Drove Out Palestinians

Recently-Opened Archives Prove
       Arabs Drove Out PalestiniansHere is an absolute must-read about how the Arabs
really came to leave Israel during the formation of the
state. It's a rare article that is worthwhile no matter
how extensive your background.

In this case the adage that "there are two sides to
every story and the truth is somewhere in the middle"
is dead wrong:

During the past decade or so, the actual elimination of
the Jewish state has become a cause celebre among
many of these educated Westerners. The "one-state
solution," as it is called, is a euphemistic formula
proposing the replacement of Israel by a state,
theoretically comprising the whole of historic
Palestine, in which Jews will be reduced to the status
of a permanent minority. Only this, it is said, can
expiate the "original sin" of Israel's founding, an act
built (in the words of one critic) "on the ruins of
Arab Palestine" and achieved through the deliberate and
aggressive dispossession of its native population.

This claim of premeditated dispossession and the
consequent creation of the longstanding Palestinian
"refugee problem" forms, indeed, the central plank in
the bill of particulars pressed by Israel's alleged
victims and their Western supporters. It is a charge
that has hardly gone undisputed. As early as the mid-
1950's, the eminent American historian J.C. Hurewitz
undertook a systematic refutation, and his findings
were abundantly confirmed by later generations of
scholars and writers. Even Benny Morris, the most
influential of Israel's revisionist "new historians,"
and one who went out of his way to establish the case
for Israel's "original sin," grudgingly stipulated that
there was no "design" to displace the Palestinian
Arabs.

The recent declassification of millions of documents
from the period of the British Mandate (1920-1948) and
Israel's early days, documents untapped by earlier
generations of writers and ignored or distorted by the
"new historians," paint a much more definitive picture
of the historical record. They reveal that the claim of
dispossession is not only completely unfounded but the
inverse of the truth.
       Burqa Bandit Kills Policeman in
       Philadelphia

Bad guys are beginning to use the burqa as the ultimate
disguise. In today's news, a police officer was killed
in a bank robbery involving a burqa:

Philadelphia police said a veteran police officer was
shot and killed in the Port Richmond section of the
city on Saturday. Steven Liczbinski, 40, a 12-year
veteran who had just been promoted to sergeant, was
shot by at least two men shortly before 11:30 a.m.
Saturday, authorities said.

He was responding to a robbery at a Bank of America
branch inside the ShopRite at Castor and Aramingo. The
men fled, and Liczbinski confronted them at Almond and
Schiller streets about 15 minutes later. was shot
multiple times with a high-powered rifle, police said.
Police originally described a man and a woman in
Muslim-type garb and a man wearing a white hospital
mask.


       Is This the End for Olmert?

Here is a pessimistic analysis on Ehud Olmert's future
in light of recent revelations about the latest police
investigation. On the other hand, as Aaron Lerner
comments, there is the possible "etrog" effect. Given
that the "branja" that controls Israel is so fixated on
land concessions to the Arabs, Olmert can protect
himself like an etrog on the holiday of Sukkot by
making sweeping offers in the "peace process."

When a supporter of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said
Saturday "That's it, it's over," it was not clear
whether he was asking a question or stating a fact.
This was a statement repeated in different words over
and over during the weekend - by ministers, MKs and
political allies. Like everyone else, they were all in
the dark, driven by rumors, hints, innuendos, flying
through the cellular telephony at tremendous speeds.

Even the more experienced among them, the veterans of
past affairs and the two Winograd Committee reports,
are sounding defeated. They did not know how to defend
themselves against this enormous tidal wave. On the one
hand, the law enforcement and the prosecution were
leaking that it was a most serious affair that would
bring an end to Olmert's tenure as PM; on the other
hand, the court is preventing the man under
investigation to talk and present his version of the
story.

Those on the right who wish for Olmert's fall also
found it difficult to come to terms with this upsetting
decision. Would an American court prevent president
Clinton from responding to the allegations against him
in the Lewinsky case? Or president Nixon on Watergate?
Olmert had been waiting eagerly for May 2008, a month
that would be filled with positive headlines, pomp and
ceremony: Independence Day festivities, and then the
visit of President George W. Bush, followed by the
visits of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Italian
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and other leaders.
Since the Second Lebanon War he did not have it so
good. He believed that the worst was behind him: that
nothing would come of the probes against him, and that
he would make progress in talks with the Palestinians,
or would have some surprising result on the Syrian
track.

He was already feeling as though "he had emerged from
the grave," a source close to him said. And then the
skies fell and the earth split open. All over again.
This is the fifth investigation in two years. This
could be the critical mass that will break even an
experienced survivor like Olmert.

The worst-case scenario for Olmert is this: when the
gag order is lifted, the details of the case will be
revealed, and there will be a public and media outcry
that will soon be taken up by the politicians. He will
lose his support in Kadima and Ehud Barak will announce
that Labor cannot remain in a coalition headed by a man
with such terrible stigma. From that point to Olmert's
fall or resignation, the path will be short, painful
and embarrassing.


Remember, the complete stories and much more can be
found by visiting the IRIS blog at:

http://www.iris.org.il/blog.html

The IRIS Staff

The Qur'an 17:104 - states the land belongs to the Jewish people

The Qur'an 17:104 - states the land belongs to the Jewish people

What can Israel do to stop Arab violence?

There have been a number of violent incidents by Arab terrorists such as murders of children and firing of rockets and now the "naqba" riots, so what do you think Israel can and should do about these terrorists?

• Best Answer

In order to stop Arab violence, Israel needs to convince these Arabs to go back to where they truly belong: Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, etc.


"Palestine is Jordan and Jordan is Palestine; there is only one land, with one history and one and the same fate," Prince Hassan of the Jordanian National Assembly was quoted as saying on February 2, 1970.


Accordingly, Abdul Hamid Sharif, Prime Minister of Jordan declared, in 1980, "The Palestinians and Jordanians do not belong to different nationalities. They hold the same Jordanian passports, are Arabs and have the same Jordanian culture."


In other words, Jordan is Palestine. Arab Palestine. There is absolutely no difference between Jordan and Palestine, nor between Jordanians and Palestinians (all actually Arabs).


This fact is also confirmed by other Arabs, Jordanians and 'Palestinian's who were either rulers or scholars.


"There should be a kind of linkage because Jordanians and Palestinians are considered by the PLO as one people," according to Farouk Kaddoumi, then head of the PLO Political Department, who gave the statement to Newsweek on March 14, 1977. Distinguished Arab-American Princeton University historian Philip Hitti testified before the Anglo-American Committee,


"There is no such thing as 'Palestine' in history."
According to Arab-American columnist Joseph Farah,
"Palestine has never existed - before or since - as an autonomous entity. It was ruled alternately by Rome, by Islamic and Christian crusaders, by the Ottoman Empire, and briefly by the British after World War I. The British agreed to restore at least part of the land to the Jewish people as their homeland. There was no language known as Palestinian. There was no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a Palestine governed by the Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc."

The Qur'an 17:104 - states the land belongs to the Jewish people

Cher was here JPA Israel was formed on a majority Jewish area. Nothing was "stolen." The Arabs were invited to stay, until they attacked to wipe out Israel. Reading down the anti-Israeli answers, and they're still on that war. Support Israel to support peace!

by Y.K. Cherson

• Suppose Mexicans who live in the USA all of a sudden declare they are "the native inhabitants of America" and start the terrorist attacks against the Americans, launching the missiles on , for example, Stockton and declaring the Fourth of July as the "Day of the National Catastrophe for the native Inhabitants of America". What would the USA do?
  
  Israel must do exactly the same.
  
  Would America take seriously the screams of the UN about the "excessive use of force" if the lives of the American citizens were in danger?
  
  Israel must do the same.

  by Alan M
• Its difficult when the world turns a blind eye to these Hamas murderers. I think they can just do what the UDA did in Ireland when the IRA terrorists kept killing the British in Northern Ireland. They simply kept taking out the individual terrorists until eventually the IRA surrendered.
  Some of the answers below are so absurd like telling Israel to leave. The fact is Hamas is intent on destroying Israel no matter what. ! No negotiating at all. You cannot talk with these people. They only like the IRA understand one thing. They need eliminated from this world completely.