This does not discount the possibility that the Arab "Palestinians" were
nomadic. That is, the territory was their native territory, but they tended not
to establish towns due to their nomadic nature. There are different concepts of
how peoples connect themselves to the land. Land ownership and "imprinting" is
NOT a universal concept. There is also the concept of "this is the land we
USE", "this is the land by which we LIVE".
The reasoning used below to deny land from "Palestinians" is one of those used
to deprive native Amerindindians of their lands. It is disrespectful, and it is
wrong.
adar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
THESE ARE THE FACTS:
ARABS were
Invaders From the Desert - They established NO imprint on the land.
Before Israeli independence, the Arabs only built one town
in all of Palestine.
ONLY ONE...
"The feeling of so many nineteenth-century visitors that the country had been
waiting for the return of its lawful inhabitants was made the more significant
by the shallowness of the Arab imprint on the country. In twelve hundred years
of association, they build only a single town, Ramleh, established as the
local
subprovincial capital in the eighth century. The researchers of the
nineteenth-century scholars, beginning with the archaeologist Edward Robinson
in 1838, revealed that hundreds of place-names of villages and sites,
seemingly
Arab, were Arabic renderings or translations of ancient Hebrew names, biblical
or Talmudic. The Arabs have never even had a name of their own for this
country
which they claim. "Filastin" is merely the Arab transliteration of
"Palestine,"
the name the Romans gave the country when they determined to obliterate the
"presence of the Jewish people." (Samuel Katz, "Battleground.." - 73)
"Sir George Adam Smith, author of the "Historical Geography of the Holy Land,"
wrote in 1891" `The principle of nationality requires their (the Turks')
dispossession. Nor is there any indigenous civilization in Palestine that
could
take the place of the Turkish except that of the Jews who...have given to
Palestine everything it has ever had of value to the world.' This blunt
judgement was entirely normal; it aroused no objections and offended no one.
It
was a simple statement of a unique and irrefutable fact. The Arabs's discovery
of Palestine came many years later." (Katz)
It is an Arab myth that the Arabian Peninsula is a land where history begins
with Muhammad and Israel is not a real nation. Arabs insist Israel is on land
that belongs to them. Islam is a religion, not about peace, but about conquest
and plunder. When the Jews returned (and some were always there because they
never left) and built up the land it became once more a place to plunder. The
pre-modern Arab civilization brought with it a creed that has offered an
afterlife to people with nothing in this life.
MORE:
http://pnews.org/ArT/TrU/DesertInvaders.shtml
Hank Roth
http://pnews.org/
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