What
the Palestinians should worry about is pushing the Jews too far.
After nearly 2,000 years of exile from their homeland, they’ve
returned, and nothing will reverse that divine decree. Push the Jews
too far and you might just get a Jewish backlash, “Jewish Days of
Rage.” The Syrian-Greeks pushed us too far, the Mityavnim (the
Hellenized Jews) pushed us to far, and then Matityahu, his sons, and
other loyal Jews stood up and began a guerrilla war against the
Hellenistic occupation. And let’s remember, the Maccabees were
victorious.
Watch
out, Hanukkah is coming!
Palestinian
supporters should shut-up too. They’re on the wrong side of
history. After a thousand years of anti-Semitism in Europe
culminating in the Holocaust, Europe has nothing to teach us about
morality. Their moral compass broke eons ago.
The
Muslim anti-Jewish narrative is a Big Lie too. Real Muslims, who know
the Quran, know that G-d promised the land to the people of Israel,
and promised to bring them back to it.
Sheikh
Prof. Abdul Hadi Palazzi for example, supports the Jewish divine
right to the Land of Israel, and backs his positions with citations
from the Koran and traditional Muslim sources. He has a doctorate in
Islamic Sciences from the Institute for Islamic Studies and Research
in Naples (by authorization of the former Grand Mufti of Saudi
Arabia), and ijazzah (authorization to teach) both Koranic exegesis
and Islamic law from the prestigious University of al-Azhar as-Sharif
in Cairo.
Palazzi
believes that the Koran clearly states (Sura 5:21), that G-d granted
the Land of Israel to the Children of Israel, and ordered them to
settle there. In addition, it is predicted that before the end of
days, God will bring the Children of Israel to retake possession of
the Land, gathering them from the different countries and nations
(Sura 17:104).
Sheikh
Palazzi argues that Muslim religious opposition to the existence of
Israel is not grounded within classical Muslim religious texts, which
actually do support Israel’s right to exist. But was created by the
Grand Mufti Haj Amin Al Husseini, Hitler’s friend. Husseini
it must be
remembered, collaborated with both Italy
and Germany during
World War II by making propagandistic radio broadcasts, and helped
the Nazis recruit Bosnian Muslims for the Waffen-SS, who
guarded train tracks to death camps.
And
Palazzi’s not alone, there’s
Khaleel
Mohammed, a professor of Religion at
San Diego State University, in California. He’s
a member of Homeland Security Master's
Program, and a core faculty member of SDSU's Center for Islamic and
Arabic Studies. He studied Islamic law at Imam Muhammad ibn Saud
Islamic University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and
has a PhD in Islamic law from
McGill University in Montreal.
Mohammed
agreed with Palazzi
in a 2004
interview, in which he stated that Sura 5:21 of the Quran, and the
medieval exegetes of the Quran, say that Israel belongs to the Jews.
He says of
Israel, “It’s in the Muslim consciousness that the land first
belonged to the Jews. It doesn't matter if the Jews were exiled 500
years or 2000 years, the Holy Land, as mentioned in Quran belongs to
Moses and his people, the Jews.”
Then
there’s Sheikh Ahmad
Adwan, a Muslim scholar living in Jordan, who
declared on his
Facebook page in 2014
that, Palestine doesn't exist, and that Jews are the inheritors of
Israel (Sura 26:59).
Adwan
insisted,
“I say to those who distort...the Koran: from where did you bring
the name Palestine, you liars, you accursed, when Allah has already
named it ‘The Holy Land’ and bequeathed it to the Children of
Israel until the Day of Judgment,” (Sura
5:21).
“Your
demand for the Land of Israel is a falsehood and it constitutes an
attack on the Koran, on the Jews and their land. Therefore you won’t
succeed, and Allah will fail you and humiliate you, because Allah is
the one who will protect them (i.e. the Jews),” warned
Adwan.
The
Jews are a peaceful people according to Adwan, who says “if they
are attacked, they defend themselves while causing as little damage
to the attackers as possible. It is an honor for them that Allah has
chosen them over the worlds – meaning over the people and the Jinns
(spiritual creatures) until the Day of Judgment...When Allah chose
them, He didn’t do so out of politeness, and He wasn’t unjust to
other
peoples, it is just that they (the Jews) deserved this.”
And,
there are plenty of other Muslim scholars who acknowledge Israel’s
rights, go do the research.
So,
after President Trump’s
recent
speech
officially
recognizing
Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, in
which
he said, “...we
finally acknowledge the obvious: that Jerusalem is Israel’s
capital. This is nothing more, or less, than a recognition of
reality. It is also the right thing to do. It’s something that has
to be done,” why are the Palestinians really rioting? Why were
several rockets shot into Israel from Gaza? Why is Hezbollah, Hamas,
Turkey, Iran, the Arab League, the UN, even North Korea, and the rest
of the usual gang screaming?
It
seems that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman proposed that the
village of Abu Dis become the future capital of Palestine instead of
East Jerusalem, during Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’
visit to Riyadh last month. Abu Dis is a town just outside the E.
Jerusalem city limit. According to the Oslo Accords, it is classified
as Area B, which is administered jointly by both Israel and the PA.
Salman gave Abbas two months to respond to the offer.
According Palestinian sources, the proposal offered Palestinians a non-contiguous mini-state in Judea, Samaria and Gaza – the West Bank administrative areas A and B and 10 percent of area C – with limited self-government, while the majority of Israeli towns and villages (settlements) would remain, and Israel would be responsible for security on the borders with Jordan & Egypt. This sounds very similar to what Netanyahu has been pushing for years.
The proposal does not grant Palestinian “refugees” and their descendants living in other countries, the right of return to Israel. See my article “Who is a Palestinian Refugee?” (2003) to better understand that Big Lie.
It seems Abbas and Hamas have taken a page out of Arafat’s playbook. During the Camp David Summit in July, 2000, US president Bill Clinton, Israeli PM Ehud Barak and PA chairman Yasser Arafat met, but the summit ended without an agreement. Just as Arafat started the Oslo War (second intifadah) after being offered almost everything – 92% of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza – and then rejecting it, Abbas is starting another war.
But,
notice carefuly, Trump
during his speech
didn’t say “undivided capital.” Trump
continued, “We are not
taking a position on...specific boundaries of the Israeli sovereignty
in Jerusalem...Those questions are up to the parties involved.” So
let’s just be clear. This “recognition” doesn’t preclude the
re-division of Jerusalem into the capitals of Israel and a
Palestinian state.
US
Public Law 104-45,
The
Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995, was adopted by the Senate (93–5),
and the House (374–37). The
act declares
it to be US
policy that:
(1)
“Jerusalem remain an undivided city in which the rights of every
ethnic religious group are protected.” (There is physical division
and there is functional division, what did congress mean?)
(2)
“Jerusalem should be recognized as the capital of the State of
Israel (Which Trump just did); and”
(3)
“the United States Embassy in Israel should be established in
Jerusalem no later than May 31, 1999.” (But presidents were
provided with a six-month waiver option, which Trump just signed.)
“Consistent
with the Jerusalem Embassy Act,” Trump
promised to direct,
“the
State Department to begin preparation to move the American embassy
from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.”
In
pursuance of that
act, a
potential site for the
future US Embassy, has been demarcated by Israel and the US, and is
maintained in the neighborhood of Talpiot (in
W. Jerusalem).
Again, proof that E. Jerusalem could be
negotiable, from the US perspective.
Trump
also said, “Jerusalem
is today, and must remain, a place where Jews pray at the Western
Wall, where Christians walk the Stations of the Cross, and where
Muslims worship at Al-Aqsa Mosque.”
Let’s
be clear, whether the “Palestinians” get a mini-state with Abu
Dis as their capital; or somehow part of E. Jerusalem is relabeled,
so that they can claim E. Jerusalem is the capital of their state.
And, the Arab occupation of the Jewish
people’s holiest site, the Temple Mount continues.
All these scenarios are unacceptable to
today’s Maccabees. Remember, the first
Maccabees fought
to get the Syrian-Greeks
occupation off the Temple Mount.
Judaism,
Christianity (in spite of what the Pope said recently), and yes even
authentic Islam, all recognize the Jewish
people’s exclusive rights over it’s ancient homeland, the
Land of Israel, and that includes all of
Jerusalem.
The
Palestinians should beware. The world should beware. Push
the Jews too far and you might just get a Jewish backlash, “Jewish
Days of Rage,” today’s Maccabees in
action.
Hanukkah
is coming!!!
Ariel
Natan Pasko, an independent analyst and consultant, has a Master's
Degree specializing in International Relations, Political Economy &
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