by Shmuel Katz.
The story of the Arabs who
left the coastal areas of Palestine in the spring of 1948 encapsulates one of
the great international frauds of the 20th century. The Arabs are the only
declared "refugees" who became refugees by the initiative of their
own leaders. The concoction of the monstrous charge that it was the Jews who
had driven out the Arabs of Palestine was a strategic decision made by the leaders
of the Arab League months after the Arabs' flight.
The Arab ‘refugees’ were
not driven out by anyone. The vast majority left at the order or exhortation of
their leaders - always with the same reassurance - that it would help the Arab
states in the war they were about to launch to destroy the State of Israel.
For example: The prime minister of
Iraq, Nuri Said, thundered:
"We will smash the country [Israel] with our guns and obliterate every
place the Jews seek shelter in. The Arabs should
conduct their wives and children to safe areas until the fighting has died down."
The total number of Arabs
who evacuated, even according to the British Mandate's statistics, could not
have been more than 420,000. This figure conforms roughly also to the figure
published from Arab sources, and by the UN.
It was in the immediate
aftermath of the war that the refugee scam was developed into an international
operation. As soon as the UN Disaster Relief Organization started providing
food, shelter, clothing and medical attention to the Arabs who had fled
Palestine, a mass of needy Arabs descended on the camps from all over the Arab
states. The organization had no machinery for identification; so the arrivals
simply signed the register as refugees and received the free aid.
Already in December 1948,
the director of the Relief Organization, Sir Rafael Cilento, reported he was
feeding 750,000 "refugees." By July 1949 the UN reported a round
million.
The Red Cross International
Committee joined the party. It pressed for the recognition of any destitute
Arab in Palestine as a refugee. Thus about 100,000 were added to the list.
To add a touch of mordant
humour, the Red Cross authority wrote about the additional people that:
"It would be senseless to force them to abandon their homes to be able to
get food as refugees." So these people stayed at home, received their free
services there, and were added to the rolls of the refugees. (Please, do not give your financial support to this deeply
anti-Semitic and anti-Israel organization!)
Thus - and by other more expectable means of
humanistic falsification we have, in the third generation, a large amorphous
mass of Arabs, all of them comfortably lumped together in official UN lists as
Arab refugees, described as "victims of Israeli aggression" and demanding
the right of "return."
A major terrorist car bombing was averted
at a Haifa mall on Saturday night when one of several explosive devices hidden
in a parked vehicle malfunctioned. The sappers found a partially exploded bomb
in the trunk of a car, which was parked outside the shopping center. A further
search of the vehicle uncovered several more unexploded bombs.
Food for Thought. by Steven
Shamrak
I
respect the determination of our Arab enemies to destroy Israel as a part of
their grand plan toward creation of the world Caliphate. I despise anti-Semitic
gentiles, of any religious and political persuasion, who support their own arch
Muslim enemies against Israel. I pity the disturbed minds of self-hating Jews
who have joined them.
The Truth is Out Again, but No one Cares! Senior Fatah official
Mahmoud Dahlan has called on Hamas not to recognize Israel, and says his own
Fatah organization does not recognize Israel either: “This is a big deception.
For the one thousandth time, I want to reaffirm that we are not asking Hamas to
recognize Israel's right to exist. Rather, we are asking Hamas not to do so,
because Fatah never recognized Israel's right to exist.” The Palestinian
Liberation Organization (PLO) recognized Israel's existence, Dahlan said, but
the PLO's decision did not obligate Fatah to recognize Israel. The statements
were made in an interview with the Palestinian Authority's official television
station. (Every one knows about it, but the
deceptive game of the Peace process must go on, mustn’t it? The enemies of
Israel even do not bother to pretend! Why is Israel still participating in this
self-destructive game?)
Nothing has
Changed in ‘Good Old Europe’. According to a recent study in Germany on 15
year olds, one in 20 people is affiliated with a neo-Nazi movement. One young
person in ten has objects with swastikas. (This is yet more proof that Israel and
Jews must start to think about their self-interest first. We will never be able
to please our oppressors and haters! They do not care about ‘public opinion’,
so why should we?)
The Deal Hamas has never Intended to Make! Hamas spokesman Iman Tehe
said on Tuesday that the reason the prisoner exchange deal for kidnapped
soldier Gilad Shalit fell through is because Israel agreed to release more than
320 (‘only’)
of the 450 terrorists requested by Hamas. He also said that Israel has to allow
all the terrorists to remain in Gaza or Judea and Samaria (so they will be able to kill more Jews) and that
the group will not allow them to be deported. (Sadly,
the negotiation is a smoke-screen and another form of terrorism - emotional!
That is why Hamas has been continuously changing its position.)
Quote of the Week: “Traditional anti-Semitism is the
discrimination against, denial of or assault upon the rights of Jews to live as
equal members of whatever host society they inhabit. The new anti-Semitism
involves the discrimination against the right of the Jewish people to live as
an equal member of the family of nations.” - Irwin Cotler,
MP for Mount Royal and former minister of justice and attorney-general of
Canada.
Creating and Resettling
Refugees, but NOT fake Palestinians! According to figures issued by the US defence
department, 4260 US soldiers have been killed in Iraq since the beginning of
the intervention there in March 2003 and 591 US soldiers have been killed in
Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan since in October 2001. (Hundreds of thousand Iraqis have been killed during this
war. Over 4 million refugees have fled Iraq and many more have been internally displaced
during the legally questionable war in Iraq. Nobody cares! Over 4 million
refugees have been created during recent years in each of Darfur, Sudan and
Uganda (over 12 million in total). Only Israel is not allowed to get rid of
less than 4 million members of a hostile population from the Jewish land,
in order to establish internal peace in the country!)
Crocodile Tears. Kadima MK Ronit Tirosh said that the 2005
Disengagement from Gaza proves that retreating from territory is a mistake and
encourages terrorism: “Giving away territories does not bring peace – in fact
to the contrary, it is interpreted by the Arabs as a sign of weakness.” “In any
case, any withdrawal from the Golan should be preceded by a national vote.” (It was an obvious and predictable ‘mistake’, but Kadima
did it anyway. But, even now they are still pushing for ‘withdrawal’ from the
Golan. Jewish self-haters will never learn!) Italian newspaper
La-Republica published on Wednesday an interview with Syrian President Bashar
Assad in which he said that Olmert had agreed to retreat from the Golan in
exchange for (the illusion of) peace with
Syria.
What Peace? The Egyptian
ambassador in Israel, Yasser Rida, is threatening not to attend the ceremonies
marking the 30 years after the signing of the Israeli-Egyptian peace accords in
1979 next Wednesday in Jerusalem. (Just a piece of
paper that is worth nothing!)
French did it and British Also did it! The Supreme Court gave a
green light for the destruction of the house of tractor terrorist Husam
Dwayat in Eastern Jerusalem. He killed three people and injured dozens more
when he went on a rampage in Jerusalem during July, 2008. (How many times must the same issue be discussed? The
destruction of terrorists’ homes must be always swift and decisive!
Otherwise no one learns the lesson.)
Lieberman
on Hypocrisy and Racism!
(Personally
I am not his fan, but he has a point.)
Lieberman: The dividing line for Yisrael Beytenu is
who supports terror and who fights terror. We cannot accept that there are
people in Israel that even during even the war openly supported Hamas. First of
all, [I propose] to outlaw these parties and these political leaders [who
supported Hamas]. When I suggested the exact procedure like in the United
States for the pledge, everybody here said, "You're a racist, you're a
fascist."
What is [the] reason for so longstanding a conflict?
Many people say it's about occupation, settlements, settlers, etc. I think
that's a misunderstanding. Before 1967, it was the same. And what was before
1948? It was the same.
We respect every American administration, every
American president. We'll respect any choice [of] the American people. We
expect you [to] respect any choice of the people of Israel.
The problem is hypocrisy. Every time people
[politicians] from the United States start to condemn Israel's violations of
human rights, [I tell them] I'm still waiting for a congressional hearing on
human rights in Saudi Arabia. After that, I'll be ready to hear about human
rights in Israel, not before. (While investigating Saudi Arabia, focus must be made on
modern slavery, women and religious rights, and support of terrorism. But,
strangely and predictably, most of the international human right organizations,
as well as governments, are mute about Saudi Arabia’s ‘behaviour’!)