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Israel and Palestine: Dispelling the Myths about Palestine’s Past
Author Marcus Henderson Wilder has a new handy reference book, ISRAEL & PALESTINE Obvious Questions No One Asks, which dispels many of the popular myths related to the historical background of Israel, Palestine and role of the Arab world.
Pro-Palestine Protest, the perpetual spread of misinformation and propaganda against Israel
Wilder looks into the origins of the Palestinians, why they do not have a country, why Arab countries other than Jordan do not accept Palestinian refugees, who are the Sunni and Shi’a, the terrorist organizations Hamas and Hezbollah, and the Fatah faction.
He also takes a look at the history of the Jews, just who they are, why they have built a wall in Israel, why they attack Gaza, why Israel hasn’t returned the land they captured during the Six Day War, why they have built settlements, and what occurred during the pivotal year of 1967.
He explains the role of the United States and the Arab world as well as what is Zionism, the Mossad, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Die Spinne.
Here are a few of the historical facts related to Palestine and Israel you’ll find in Wilder’s book:
* Palestinians are the Philistines of the Bible…the Sea People. What is now Gaza was Philistia. Gaza is theirs…unless Gaza belongs to Canaanite peoples Philistines displaced…peoples who had been there since time before memory.
* Sephardic Jews had been in the Middle East since 1492, Mizrahi Jews since Abraham.
* The 1844 census of Jerusalem found 7120 Jews…5760 Muslims…3390 Christians.
* In the 1880s, European Jews bought idle land in what is now Israel, joining Mizrahi Jews continuously there since Abraham.
* Beginning in 1882, forty Jewish families settled at Rishon L’Tzion. Four hundred Arab families settled around them. Some of the Arab families were Bedouin. Some came from Egypt.
* A British official reported Arabs sought employment, clean drinking water, better health care, and lower infant mortality. The official reported this pattern was repeated across areas where Jews settled.
* In the 1890s, Arabs flocked to Jewish areas of Palestine for jobs created by Jewish investment and enterprise.
* After WWI, Britain tried to set up a Palestinian governing body of twelve…eight Arabs…two Christians…two Jews. Arabs said two Jews were too many. A cynic might say Arabs knew then two Jews outnumbered eight Arabs.
* In 1917, the British Balfour Agreement promised a national home for Jews in Palestine. The British did not mean it.
* Arabs turned down two-state solutions in 1917, 1937, 1948, and 2000.
Wilder is a long time traveler and author of the highly informative books Naïve & Abroad: Mexico, Painted Mask, Naïve & Abroad: Spain, Limping 600 Miles Through History, and Naïve & Abroad: Pakistan, Travel in a Land of Mullahs.
We highly recommend this book as well as Wilder’s other works as they’re chocked full of insights in a reader friendly manner. For more information you can visit Wilder’s site, NaiveandAbroad.com or you can purchase the book online at Amazon.
By Mondo Frazier
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I am a long time traveler also, I have lived in the Middle East and would recommend Alan Hart, Stuart Littlewood, Johnathan Cook, Robert Fisk, Norman Finkelstein, Khalid Amayreh, Jeff Gates just to name a few for those who would like answers to these same questions. People down on the ground. Wouldn’t it make more sense? In fact, I would recommend the Palestine blogs for all the listed “propaganda” mentioned since it’s the Palestinians who were there before any of these other characters and historical events listed by the author of this blog! These days there are so many faked Palestine sites (fascists will go to great lengths to steer decent minded folks from the truth ) I had better even mention one in case someone may be decieved. I will suggest Palestine Think Tank. One can’t go wrong and anyone wanting to know anything about Palestine history can read there and go away much more learned. Why on earth would anyone choose to learn from anyone from (or a supporter of) a murderous invader colony and think they are going to find anything close to the truth? That’s rather oxymoron I would think!
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December 28th, 2009 at 23:16
seansmom:
Interesting take on history.
When the British mandate of Palestine was partitioned in 1948, there were to be two separate entities, one Jewish and one Arab. It would be an argument that when the Arab nations sought to snuff out Israel, that they forfeited their rights to decide what went on in the area previously referred to as “Palestine”.
It’s like those multiple aggressive wars never happened in the minds of those like yourself. If the Arabs had been successful, we would not have even been having a discussion. But because they failed, they and their apologists have been attempting to win by diplomacy what they couldn’t win through naked force of arms. The stated purpose of an Iranian nuke is to force that decision back onto the table by force of arms.
Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment.
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The first Palestinian political groups were the Muslim-Christian Associations that were organized in the main cities of Palestine, including Jaffa, Haifa and Jerusalem. Together with feminist and workers’ organizations, they impulsed the realization of the First Palestinian National Congress in 1919.
the Muslim-Christian Association in Jerusalem sent a bulletin to ambassadors and political authorities, particularly British, to show the anger of the Palestinian population after the Balfour Declaration and Zionist plans for Palestine: “We totally reject the transference of Palestine to a Jewish homeland. We do not allow for any Jew to immigrate to our country. We also strongly protest against Zionism. With regard to local Jewry who inhabited Palestine earlier, they should be considered full citizens and enjoy rights that are similar to those of Palestinian Arabs (Muslims and Christians)”
You say the Palestinians “forfeited” their rights? They didn’t even seem to have a voice let alone “rights”! You call their resistance in their own homeland against armed foreign occupiers “aggressive wars?” Have you no shame as an American who’s motto should be “liberty and justice for all”? Or do you mean that just for your buddies? You should put that on your site as your logo. “Liberty and Justice for my buddies”.
One more thing. If your “buddies” had not reneged on the contract they had with the Arabs after WW! to support their unification of the Arab lands we also would not be having this discussion. Your buddies are dishonorable to say the least ( I will not even start on the European fascists who moved to Palestine you seem to support) . Nothing to be proud of. The Arabs trusted their honor (the British) and that makes me sad. But there’s a sucker born every minute and 2 to take him. yeah, I know. I would not brag about it though.
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