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PALESTINE AND PALESTINIANS

Matthew 2:20 Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life. 21 And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.

Matthew 10:23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.

Back in the second century, after the pagan Roman Emperor Hadrian killed around a half to three-quarters of a million Jews, he applied the name "Palestine" to Israel in an effort to insult and disassociate the surviving Jews from their land and erase the name of Israel forever, as some journalists continue to do today. The "Philistines", that had arrived by boat in antiquity and inhabited the coastal area of what became Israel, ".....were an Aegean people, more closely related to the Greeks and with no connection ethnically, linguistically or historically with Arabia."

"After World War I, the name "Palestine" was applied to the territory that was placed under British Mandate....."

"Leading up to Israel's independence in 1948, it was common for the international press to label Jews, not Arabs, living in the mandate as Palestinians." (quoted from Jewish Virtual Library)

So why would some Jews, or particularly those that self-identify as being Christian, or even Arabs, use the name that a second century Roman pagan applied to the land rather than the name that God gave to the "land of Israel"? Some may do so as parrots through ignorance, while other self-proclaimed Christians like David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan, Jeremiah Wright, and non-Christian racists like Louis Farrakan would seem do so through a hatred of Jews, thereby advancing the imperialistic global conquest of Islamic Jihad.

(URL) As we consider the conversation regarding Israel today, we can understand why the father of lies put the term "Palestine" on the 2nd century pagan Roman Emperor Hadrian's lips. The politically correct narrative that legacy media journalists seem to want to advance, is that the struggle in the land of Israel is between Israeli Jews and Israeli so-called "Palestinians", which allows them to obscure the identities of the two groups that are actually in conflict. However when we consider the facts, we can easily identify the two groups as:

Israeli non-Muslim Arabs

Or as it has been for 1400 years:

The non-Islamic world

So to paraphrase Benjamin Netanyahu's politically correct - but not as correct - declaration in which he used the term "Arabs" where "Muslims" would have been more appropriate:

If the Muslims put down their weapons today there would be no more violence. If the Israeli Jews, Christians and other non-Muslim Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel.

The result of pagan emperor Hadrian's false name for the land and big lie in the world today, is the creation of a fictitious group of so-called "Palestinian" people, that can be defined at one's own convenience in an effort to obscure the distinction between Israeli Muslims VS Israeli non-Muslims. If the two groups were properly identified, anti-Israel propaganda - which is effectively anti-freedom, anti-liberty, anti-democracy, women-denegrating, Islamic sharia law advancing, pro-murder, pro-slavery, propaganda - would be easily recognized, and the truth of the global imperialistic conquest of Islamic Jihad made as apparent in regard to Israel as it is in the Sudan, Nigeria, increasingly throughout Europe and around much of the rest of the world today.

CNS reports: "Sunni Muslim terrorists committed “about 70 percent” of the 12,533 terrorist murders in the world last year, according to a report by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC)."

That's for the year 2011, and that percentage didn't even include Shiite Muslim terrorist murders. Thus it should be obvious to all non-Muslims, that the world would be largely at peace today, if the followers of Muhammad had not been commanded to "fight and slay" and "instill terror" into non-Muslims in the "cause" of "Allah".

Thus Hadrian's spurious term obscures the fact that it is Islam, that is at war against the non-Islamic world, just as it has been for 1400 years. The Dar al-Salaam VS the Dar al-Harb. The "house of peace" VS the "house of war". If you are a Muslim you are in the house of peace, but if you are a non-Muslim you are in the house of war, and while you may not be at war against Islam, Islam has been at war against you for 1400 years because Muhammad commanded it of his followers. The exact opposite of Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace.

Followers of the false prophet Muhammad of course have been trying to erase the name of Israel for centuries, because their interest in Israel is the same as their interest in the rest of the world, which is imperialistic conquest and subjugation of all people to specifically disbelieving the whole subject of the Gospel, denying the Son of God, and rejecting His shed blood, as articles of faith in the false prophet Muhammad alone.

Yet there are actually some that believe themselves to be Christians that avoid the term Israel and instead use the term "Palestine", specifically to obscure the nature of conflict in Israel, which advances the anti-religion of the false prophet Muhammad. This is the result of "replacement theology" or supersessionism. But the fact of the matter is, that the source of the conflict - just as around the rest of the world - is Islam.

So which side have you chosen? That of the vast majority of Israeli Jews and non-Muslim Gentiles that are in favor of the freedom, liberty and right to self-determination provided by the democracy of the Israeli Jewish State, as secured for all of the citizens of Israel? Or are you on the side of those that wish to conquer and convert Israel into just another sharia law ruled, multiple wife and concubine beating, little girl circumcising, Christian and Jew persecuting and murdering, apostate executing, imperialistic conquering, antichrist, Islamic slave state?

So from a Christian perspective it should be easy to see that the pagan Roman Emperor Hadrian's use of the term "Palestine" is a big lie, inspired by the father of lies himself from straight out of the pit of hell, to hide the truth.

Israeli Non-Muslim Arabs (URL)

Wikipedia article: "In contrast, a poll of 507 Arab-Israelis conducted by the Israeli Democracy Institute in 2007 found that 75 percent profess support for Israel's status as a Jewish and democratic state which guarantees equal rights for minorities. Israeli Arab support for a constitution in general was 88 percent.[31]"

A democracy under which Muslims also enjoy more freedom than Muslims do in any Islam controlled country on earth. This, while Islam remains the very antithesis of freedom, liberty and the right to self-determination. The Netanyahu quote exhibiting the same politically correct failure to identify the enemy of the non-Islamic world, as Islam, just as it has been for the last 1400 years. Indeed Islam is even the enemy of the Islamic world in light of the Sunni and Shiite mutual murder, mayhem and misery. Even worse, preventing Muhammad's followers from seeing the truth, in the light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

This is made obvious through the imperialistic conquest of nearly the whole known world during the Islamic First Jihad, before being turned back in the Battle of Tour France and Vienna Austria (as date pinned mathematically by Daniel's 1335).

"During the last few centuries, the world, Christians included, has fallen into a bad habit. We have bought into some early Roman propaganda. We have used the name Palestine, which Roman Emperor Hadrian placed on the country of Israel in 135 A.D., for so long that it has become common usage. This would be as incorrect as calling the Russia of today the “Soviet Union” or referring to Berlin as “East Germany.” The thoughts below by our ministry’s senior theologian, Dr. Thomas S. McCall, completely explore the subject. If you know somebody who’s fallen into this habit, please share this article with them." — Thomas S. McCall, Th.D. (please read his very informative article)

Thus the term was originally coined by a Roman emperor, to insult Jews after he had vanquished them, and erase Israel from the map. It should be no surprise that the term "Palestinians" is favored by the anti-Israel agenda driven secular media. Nor should it be a surprise that the anti-Zionist part of the "church" seems to adore the term. What seems most apparent is that use of the term "Palestinian" accomplishes, whether wittingly or unwittingly, is obscuring the identities of the parties in conflict in the Middle East theater while advancing Islamic propaganda. As they say, and as couldn't be more appropriately applied, "the devil is in the details".

As Walid Shoebat put it: "One day during the 1960s I went to bed a Jordanian Muslim, and when I woke up the next morning, I was informed that I was now a Palestinian Muslim, and that I was no longer a Jordanian Muslim."

Thus the conflict IS NOT between a fictitious people that are so-called "Palestinians" VS Israeli Jews, but rather between Israeli Muslims VS Israeli non-Muslims. The conflict is between the freedom, liberty and right to self-determination of the democracy of the Israeli Jewish State, VS the totalitarian oppression, dhimmitude, misery, mayhem and murder of an Islamic slave state.

AP - December 06, 2006 MOGADISHU, Somalia - "Residents of a southern Somalia town who do not pray five times a day will be beheaded, an Islamic courts official said Wednesday, adding the edict will be implemented in three days."

The conflict is because the false prophet Muhammad commanded his followers to conquer all kingdoms, and subjugate all people, to themselves. The "dar al-Salaam" VS the "dar al-Harb". The "house of peace" VS the "house of war". If you are a Muslim you are in the house of peace. If you are a non-Muslim you are in the house of war, and while you may not be at war against Islam, Islam has been at war against you for 1400 years.

With special attention paid to singling out Jews, whether those innocent Jewish farm boys and their dads and grandpas of the Banu Qurayza that Muhammad beheaded for rejecting his pop-"religion", or the marching orders Muhammad left behind, as meted out upon innocent Israeli Jews, Israeli Christians and Israeli non-Muslim Arabs today.

Muslims Target Civilians (URL)

Except for those that suffer from self-imposed abject ignorance, it is perhaps otherwise the working of reprobate minds in those who are unable to make a distinction between the targeting of innocent civilians, in the terrorism of imperialistic aggression of Muhammad's followers in the Middle East, who have in every modern day war against Israel called for genocide of Jews. Also targeting civilian population centers for bombing - and particularly targeting women and children - while the Israelis have never targeted civilians (outside of a single incident by a group of Israeli irregulars) but instead target enemy combatants and military targets, while placing their effort into minimizing civilian casualties in compliance with international law. Unfortunately some innocents have been unavoidably killed through collateral damage, since the Muhammadan combatants dress as civilians and hide themselves and operate from among their civilian population, to maximize casualties among their own innocents, for propaganda purposes. This while the Israeli military places their assets outside of civilian centers, specifically to avoid collateral damage, among their own innocent civilians.

Let alone the stunning incapacity of some self-proclaimed "Christian" anti-Zionists to recognize that Israel is just another front, in the 1400 year and still running Islamic conquest of the world and subjugation of all people, to blasphemy against the Son of God and denying His crucifixion and thus rejecting His shed blood, as articles of faith in Muhammad alone.

While the simple-minded place the blame on the Israelis, solely on the basis of the greater total number of casualties being incurred by the "Palestinians", a review of the numbers demonstrates the folly of such a simpleton approach. I would refer those thus propagandized to the chapter "Why Have More Palestinians Than Israelis Been Killed?" in Alan Dershowitz's excellent book "The Case For Israel".

Perhaps not surprisingly, based on Muhammad's follower's casual playing fast and loose with truth, Muhammad's antichrists even count their suicide bombers as Muslim victims of the Israelis, even as they blow themselves up in market places filled with innocent Israeli women and children. Additionally, Israeli authorities have thwarted hundreds of attempted terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians, which would have resulted in massive Israeli casualties (like the thwarted attempt to bomb Shalom Towers - Israel's equivalent of the World Trade Center).

From Dershowitz's book:

"Between September 2,000 and August 2002 'approximately 14,000 attacks have been made against the life, person and property of innocent Israeli citizens and residents, the elderly, children, and women.'"

Without thwarting terrorist efforts the number of Israelis killed would have been as much as 10 times higher than it is.

"The New York Times has reported, 'Research published this year [December 2002] suggests that the most significant factor in keeping the homicide rate down is ... faster ambulances and better care in the emergency room."

Accounting for much better survival of Israeli victims of Islamic terror attacks. This while "Palestinians" have refused to take their wounded to Israeli hospitals, even though the Israelis treat patients strictly on the basis of those in greatest need first, regardless of race or religion. Again, it is for the time tested tactic of Muslim efforts to increase the death toll among their own innocents, for propaganda purposes. Even refusing Israeli offers of helicopter transport, and instead opting for their own ambulances for transport, with patients dying for lack of blood on the way to the hospital.

Perhaps most telling, "18 percent of the nearly 2,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces since the uprising began in September 2,000 were civilians with no connection to the acts of terror.' This comes to approximately 360 innocent civilians killed in the course of legitimate self-defense.'"

"Of the more than 800 Israeli deaths, approximately 567 have been innocent civilians [over 70%], many of these children, women and the elderly. Every such killing is an act of first-degree murder. To compare the accidental killing of civilians during legitimate self-defense against terrorism with the targeted murder of innocent civilians is like comparing medicine to poison. Both can result in death; but with the former, it is a tragic, if sometimes foreseeable, side effect, whereas with the latter it is the direct intended effect."

"The number of Israeli women and children killed and injured is well in excess of the number of Palestinian women and children killed and injured-as many as three times more according to one study. A prominent feminist writer has observed,

'On the Israeli side, 80 percent of those killed were noncombatants, most of whom were women and girls. Israeli female fatalities far outnumbered Palestinian female fatalities by either 3 to 1 or 4 to 1. (So far, I have heard no feminist complaints about this; have you?) Israeli women and girls constituted almost 40 percent of the Israeli noncombatants killed by Palestinians. Of the Palestinian deaths, over 95 percent were male. In other words, Palestinians purposefully went after women, children, and other unarmed civilians and Israelis fought against armed male soldiers who were attacking them.'"

Indeed each of the Muslim wars against Israel had the stated goal of genocide of all Jews, and erasing Israel from the map, as confirmed through massacre after massacre. Incited in particular, in more recent history, by the Islamic Mufti of Jerusalem who eventually worked hand in hand with Hitler toward their shared goal of genocide of Jews, including an Islamic panzer division in Hitler's army.

Expulsions of Jews (URL)

While those of the world compel the Israelis to give up land they won in their defense from imperialistic Islamic aggression (a historically unprecedented demand), and even to pay reparations, where is the outcry for compensation to Jews and return of their land, homes, businesses and fortunes, after being driven from Islamic states through pogrom after pogrom? (Let alone non-Islamic pogrom after pogrom against Jews)

"Between 1920 and 1970, 900,000 Jews were expelled from Arab and other Muslim countries. The 1940s were a turning point in this tragedy; of those expelled, 600,000 settled in the new state of Israel, and 300,000 in France and the United States. Today, they and their descendents form the majority of the French Jewish community and a large part of Israel’s population.

In the countries that expelled Jews, a combination of six legal, economic, and political measures aimed at isolating Jews in society was instituted: denationalization; legal discrimination; isolation and sequestration; economic despoilment; socioeconomic discrimination; and pogroms or similar acts.

It is the custom to say that Zionism was responsible for this development. However, the region’s anti-Semitism would have developed even without the rise of the state of Israel because of Arab-Islamic nationalism, which resulted in xenophobia.

The fact that these events have been obscured has served in the campaign to delegitimize Israel, and therefore to a large extent, the same population that suffered this oppression. The fate of Palestinian refugees, their proclaimed innocence, and the injustice they endured form the main thrust of this delegitimization. The Jewish refugees have suffered more than the Palestinian refugees and undergone greater spoliations. However, they became citizens of the countries of refuge, especially Israel and France, while Palestinians were ostracized from the Arab nations."

The following is from a Wikipedia bio page regarding an Egyptian born Brit that writes under the psydonym of Bat Ye'or, meaning "daughter of the Nile".

"She has provided briefings to the United Nations and the U.S. Congress and has given talks at major universities such as Georgetown, Brown, Yale, Brandeis, and Columbia.[1][8]"

"She described her experiences in the following manner:

I had witnessed the destruction, in a few short years, of a vibrant Jewish community living in Egypt for over 2,600 years and which had existed from the time of Jeremiah the Prophet. I saw the disintegration and flight of families, dispossessed and humiliated, the destruction of their synagogues, the bombing of the Jewish quarters and the terrorizing of a peaceful population. I have personally experienced the hardships of exile, the misery of statelessness - and I wanted to get to the root cause of all this. I wanted to understand why the Jews from Arab countries, nearly a million, had shared my experience.[5]" Her website is dhimmitude.org.

Try a websearch like - expulsion jews muslim countries

While the global media is constantly carping on about Palestinian refugees, many of whom were expelled from their homes by Muslim leaders or voluntarily left their properties after Muslim liars falsely broadcast a story that Jewish soldiers were raping Muslim women. About which the Islamist liars later admitted was one of the biggest mistakes they made in the war.

Read the very informative chapter "Did Israel Create the Arab Refugee Problem?" in "The Case for Israel" by Alan Dershowitz

Were is all the global media whining about Jews having been displaced from their property, businesses and citizenship, in Islamic lands, in pogram after pogrom?

Let alone expulsion of Jews from so many Gentile lands throughout the last 2500 years. Including expulsion of Jews from their homes in Europe, particularly by the supersessionist Roman Church sponsored pogroms throughout the Christian era.

The truth isn't hard to find. Try a search like - pogroms antisemitism jews muslims

From "Think Israel": "The Palestinians in Israel Natives or Aliens?" by Dr. Harry Mandelbaum

The Balfour Declaration (URL)

Some anti-Zionists write as though the Balfour Declaration established the presence of Jews in Israel. However according to Alan Dershowitz ....

"By the beginning of the First World War, the number of Jews living in the area of Palestine that was to become Israel was somewhere between 80,000 and 90,000. Even before the Balfour Declaration of 1917, there was a de facto Jewish national home in Palestine consisting of several dozens of Jewish moshavim and kibbutzim in western and northeastern Palestine, as well as in Jewish cities such as Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Safad. The Jewish refugees in Palestine had established this homeland on the ground without the assistance of any colonial or imperialist powers. They had relied on their own hard work in building an infrastructure and cultivating land they had legally purchased." - "The Case for Israel" - please read this very informative book. From an illustration caption:

"Between 1880 and 1914 over sixty thousand Jews entered Palestine, mostly from Russia, Galicia, Rumania and Poland. The victims of persecution and discrimination, they sought a new homeland and a new security under Turkish rule. Many settled on wasteland, sand-dunes and malarial marsh, which they then drained, irrigated and farmed. In 1909 a group of Jews founded the first entirely Jewish town, Tel Aviv, on the sanedhills north of Jaffa. The Jews purchased their land piecemeal, from European, Turkish and (principally) Arab landlords, mostly at extremely high prices."

Image of Tel-Aviv during the 1909 lottery for building sites. (source)

IAF Flight over Tel-Aviv's beaches for Israel's 63rd Independence Day (source)

The following quote and chart are from "Think Israel"

"Before the beginning of the 20th century, there were practically no Muslim Arabs in the Holy Land. In 1695 there was not a single Muslim Arab in Gaza, Nazareth, and Um-El-Phachem. All Arabs there were Christians. By contrast, the Jews, despite 2000 years of persecution and forced conversions by various conquerors, have throughout most of history been the majority population in the Holy Land. In Jerusalem Jews were always the largest demographic group [1][2], except for periods when conquerors specifically threw them out and prevented them from returning."

The Muslim's interest in denying Israeli Jews a sovereign state where they can continue to enjoy freedom, liberty and self-determination, is that freedom is inconsistent with the 1400 year goal of Islam to conquer all nations and subjugate all people in dhimmitude to Muhammad's followers. To subjugate all people to DISbelieving the crucifixion of Christ and thus REJECTING His shed blood, while DENYING and blaspheming the Son of God.

For anyone who wishes to recognize the pagan Roman Emperor Hadrian's false name for Israel as "Palestine", as if it were some sort of a historical jurisdiction, nation or people, we would ask:

1. When was it founded and by whom?

2. What language did the Palestinians speak?

3. What writing [script] did they use?

4. What manuscripts did they leave?

5. What was their religion?

6. Where are their temples?

7. What monuments attest to their existence?

8. What were its borders?

9. What was the name of its capital?

10. What were its major cities?

11. What constituted the basis of its economy?

12. What was the name of the currency that they used?

13. What was its form of government?

14. What achievements have they accomplished?

15. What other peoples did Palestine interact with?

16. Where can one find any [historic] records, wherein the country of Palestine and its people are mentioned?

17. What archaeological sites can one name?

18. Where can one find the recorded history of these people?

19. Whom did they conquer?, or, were conquered by?

20. Was Palestine ever recognized by a country whose existence, at that time or now, leaves no room for interpretation [or doubt]?

21. What was the prevalent religion of the country of Palestine?

22. Can anyone name at least five Palestinian leaders before Arafat?

23. Finally, since there is no such recognised country today, what caused its demise and when did it occur?

The term "Palestinian" is nothing more than a smokescreen substitute term to mask the true identity of those Israeli citizens that hate freedom, liberty and the right to self-determination - that is, Israeli Muslims.

And the poor Israelis, when for the first time in world history a country that gained land through defense of its citizens from imperialistic aggressors, has been compelled to and continues to be compelled to give it back, through one-sided antisemitic anti-Zionist whining about displaced so-called "Palestinians", that no Arab state is foolish enough to accept. Preferring to gin up a continuous state of despair for political propaganda purposes.