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By: Ezequiel Doiny
The Yazidi in Iraq and the Christian Copts in Egypt are not “occupiers” or
“settlers;” neither are the Jews in Israel. They are both victims of a common
enemy that seems to want a Middle East free of non-Muslims.
The current Palestinian narrative is that all Muslims in Palestine are natives and all Jews are settlers. This narrative is false.
The current Palestinian narrative is that all Muslims in Palestine are natives and all Jews are settlers. This narrative is false.
VIDEO - INVENTING THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
There has been a
small but almost continuous Jewish presence in Palestine since the destruction
of Jerusalem by Rome two thousand years ago, and, as we will see, most of the
Muslims living in Palestine when the state of Israel was declared in 1948 were
Muslim colonists from other parts of the Ottoman Empire who had been resettled
and living in Palestine for fewer than 60 years.
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There are two important historical events usually overlooked in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
One is the use that Muslim rulers made of the jizya (a discriminatory tax imposed only on non-Muslims, to “protect” them from being killed or having their property destroyed) to reduce the quantity of Jews living in Palestine before the British Mandate was instituted in 1922.
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There are two important historical events usually overlooked in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
One is the use that Muslim rulers made of the jizya (a discriminatory tax imposed only on non-Muslims, to “protect” them from being killed or having their property destroyed) to reduce the quantity of Jews living in Palestine before the British Mandate was instituted in 1922.
The second were the incentives by
the Ottoman government to relocate displaced Muslim populations from other parts
of the Ottoman Empire in Palestine.
Until the late 1800s entire ancient Jewish communities had to flee Palestine to escape the brutality of Muslim authorities. As Egyptian historian Bat Ye’or writes in her book, The Dhimmi:
“The Jizya was paid in a humiliating public ceremony in which the non-Muslim while paying was struck in the head. If these taxes were not paid women and children were reduced to slavery, men were imprisoned and tortured until a ransom was paid for them.
Until the late 1800s entire ancient Jewish communities had to flee Palestine to escape the brutality of Muslim authorities. As Egyptian historian Bat Ye’or writes in her book, The Dhimmi:
“The Jizya was paid in a humiliating public ceremony in which the non-Muslim while paying was struck in the head. If these taxes were not paid women and children were reduced to slavery, men were imprisoned and tortured until a ransom was paid for them.
"The Jewish communities in many cities under Muslim
Rule was ruined for such demands. This custom of legalized financial abuses and
extortion shattered the indigenous pre-Arab populations almost totally
eliminating what remained of its peasantry…
"In 1849 the Jews of Tiberias
envisaged exile because of the brutality, exactions, and injustice of the Muslim
authorities.
"In addition to ordinary taxes, an Arab Sheik that ruled Hebron
demanded that Jews pay an extra five thousand piastres annually for the
protections of their lives and property. The Sheik threatened to attack and
expel them from Hebron if it was not paid.”
The Muslim rulers not only kept the number of Jews low through discriminatory taxes, they also increased the Muslim population by providing incentives for Muslim colonists to settle in the area. Incentives included free land, 12 years exemption from taxes and exemption from military service.
Bat Ye’or continues:
“By the early 1800s the Arab population in Palestine was very little (just 246,000) it was in the late 1800s and early 1900s that most Muslim Colonists settled in Palestine because of incentives by the Ottoman Government to resettle displaced Muslim populations because of events such as the Austro-Hungarian Occupation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Crimean War and World War 1.
The Muslim rulers not only kept the number of Jews low through discriminatory taxes, they also increased the Muslim population by providing incentives for Muslim colonists to settle in the area. Incentives included free land, 12 years exemption from taxes and exemption from military service.
Bat Ye’or continues:
“By the early 1800s the Arab population in Palestine was very little (just 246,000) it was in the late 1800s and early 1900s that most Muslim Colonists settled in Palestine because of incentives by the Ottoman Government to resettle displaced Muslim populations because of events such as the Austro-Hungarian Occupation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Crimean War and World War 1.
"Those events
created a great quantity of Muslim Refugees that were resettled somewhere else
in the Ottoman Empire… In 1878 an Ottoman law granted lands in Palestine to
Muslim colonists. Muslim colonists from Crimea and the Balkans settled in
Anatolia, Armenia, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine.”
Justin McCarthy, a professor of history at the University of Louisville, writing in his Annotated Map:
Justin McCarthy, a professor of history at the University of Louisville, writing in his Annotated Map:
“Forced Migration and Mortality in the Ottoman
Empire,” also notes that there were about five million Muslims displaced due to
the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Crimean War, Balkan
wars, the Turkish war of independence and World War I."
Sergio DellaPergola, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in his paper “Demography in Israel/Palestine: Trends, Prospects and Policy Implications,” provides estimates of the population of Palestine in different periods.
Sergio DellaPergola, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in his paper “Demography in Israel/Palestine: Trends, Prospects and Policy Implications,” provides estimates of the population of Palestine in different periods.
As the
demographic data below shows, most Muslims living in Palestine in 1948 when the
State of Israel was created had been living there for fewer than 60 years:
1890: Arab Population 432,000
1947: Arab Population 1,181,000
Growth in Arab population from 1890 to 1947: 800,000
The Yazidi in Iraq and the Christian Copts in Egypt are not “settlers” and “occupiers;” neither are the Jews in Israel. They are victims of a common enemy that seems to want a Middle East free of non-Muslims.
1947: Arab Population 1,181,000
Growth in Arab population from 1890 to 1947: 800,000
The Yazidi in Iraq and the Christian Copts in Egypt are not “settlers” and “occupiers;” neither are the Jews in Israel. They are victims of a common enemy that seems to want a Middle East free of non-Muslims.
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VIDEO - WHAT IS PALESTINE,
AND WHO ARE THE PALESTINIANS?
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Are Arabs the indigenous people of Palestine?
By Daniel Grynglas
The wars between Israel and its Arab neighbors were fought for many years on
the battlefield between armies. In recent decades the arena of conflict has
shifted from hand-to-hand combat to a war of narratives.
Everybody agrees that the current affluence of Israel, its modern
infrastructure and economy were developed by the Jews. The Palestinian narrative
is that as the ancient, indigenous people of Palestine they feel dispossessed
and they deserve to take over Israel’s riches.
Jewish claims to their heritage in the land of Israel are supported by
abundant archaeological artifacts and historical records. Meanwhile, there are
no records to support the Palestinian narrative. In history, art and literature
there is no trace at all of any Muslim people referred to by anybody as
“Palestinians.”
Records show that it was 19th and 20th century Jewish settlement and the
resulting employment opportunities that drew successive waves of Arab immigrants
to Palestine.
“The Arab population shows a remarkable increase ….. partly due to the import
of Jewish capital into Palestine and other factors associated with the growth of
the [Jewish] National Home..” The (Peel Commission Report – 1937)
“..in the Jewish settlement Rishon l’Tsion founded in 1882, by the year 1889,
the forty Jewish families settled there, had attracted more than four hundred
Arab families…. Many other Arab villages had sprouted in the same fashion.”
(Joan Peters – From Time Immemorial p. 252 – referenced further as:
FTI)
British PM Winston Churchill said in 1939: “.. far from being persecuted, the
Arabs have crowded into the country [Palestine]..”
Before the Six Day War in 1967, when Jordan controlled the West Bank and
Egypt ruled in Gaza, there was never any suggestion on the part of the
“Palestinians” that they wanted independence in their ancestral homeland. The
reason was that the “Palestinian” nation hadn’t been invented yet.
In fact, before the State of Israel was born, the term “Palestinians” was
used by the Jews to refer to themselves and their organizations. “The Palestine
Post”, the Palestine Foundation Fund, Palestine Airways, and the Palestine
Symphony Orchestra were all purely Jewish enterprises.
The Muslim occupier.
Jews being expelled from Jerusalem, under the watch of a Jordanian soldier
We first hear of Arabs referred to as “Palestinians” when Yasser Arafat
established the “Palestine Liberation Organization” in 1964. It was only during
the 1970s that the newly minted “Palestinians” began to promote their narrative
through murder and assassination. The Arabs have justified their attacks as
acts of the indigenous people struggling for national liberation.
Joan Peters' research exposed the truth about Arab claims
Many individual authors have challenged the “Palestinian” narrative. Among
these, one of the most ambitious was Joan Peters, who in 1984 published her
thoroughly researched study of Arab immigration into Palestine, From Time
Immemorial.
Peters assembled many accounts of 19th century travelers’ journeys through
the Holy Land that paint the picture of a desolate and almost empty land. Mark
Twain’s comments in 1867 are probably the best known:
“….. A desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly
to weeds… a silent mournful expanse…. a desolation…. we never saw a human being
on the whole route…. hardly a tree or shrub anywhere.”
Peters documents how the current land of Israel with its millions of Arabs
and Jews gradually emerged from its desolate 19th century beginnings. She
analyzes the respective populations of Muslims, Christians and Jews based on
data available from existing sources including Ottoman census figures,
government documents, old publications, scientific research, etc.
Peters’ work was received with accolades and praise in most quarters and with
predictable outrage by the supporters of the “Palestinian” narrative.
The
rabidly anti-Israeli academic, Norman Finklestein, wrote a lengthy rebuttal
trying to challenge Peters’ work and smeared her personally. Finklestein’s
bogus charges were echoed by some other pro-Palestinian advocates.
The vehemence with which Peters was attacked was very telling. She had
undermined the basis for the delegitimization of Israel. She had shown that the
vast majority of “Palestinians” are not indigenous to Palestine but rather
descendants of the Arab economic migrants who arrived in the late 19th and 20th
centuries.
Peter’s thorough analysis consists of 410 pages of text and 190 pages of
documentary appendices. The general public could hardly be expected to wade
through the 600-page tome full of data tables and quotes from hundreds of
sources. Thus the book was unable to reverse the continuing fiction of the
indigenous “Palestinian” people whose lands have been stolen by the Jews.
A simple new way to prove Peters' key conclusion.
In the midst of various arguments, what has been overlooked is a simple and
incontrovertible way to prove that the vast majority of “Palestinians” are the
descendants of the relatively recent Arab immigrants.
Peters calculated that in 1882, just the non-nomadic, settled Muslims in
Palestine numbered 141,000.
Among them, those that resided in Palestine before
the 1831 Egyptian invasion numbered 75 percent, or 105,700 (FTI* page 197).
By
2015, descendants of these 105,700 persons can trace their linage in Palestine
for almost 200 years. Therefore, one might consider them to be the indigenous
residents.
The date 1831 is important, because this was the beginning of the war with
Arab Egypt, during which many thousands of Arabs settled in Palestine and
changed its demographics.
The number of 105,700 thousand settled Muslims is in general agreement with
other important data. Walter Lowdermilk gives the total number of 200,000 people
residing in Palestine in 1850 (page 76 – Palestine Land of Promise
1944). Lowdermilk’s number includes Jews, Christians, travelling nomadic
Bedouins and settled Muslims.
It also includes Arabs that immigrated after the
war of 1831. Arthur Ruppin estimates the total population in year 1882 (The
Jews in the Modern World, MacMillan – 1934 page 368) as 300,000 Palestinian
inhabitants, including nomadic and settled Muslims, Christians and Jews.
If these 105,700 indigenous Muslims were to increase in numbers only through
natural population growth, how many would they number today in 2015? This would
represent the size of this population as if there were no Muslim immigration at
all.
We can calculate the estimated 2015 native population, based on natural
rates of population growth. I assume that the post-1882 Muslim population in
Palestine — apart from immigration — grew at approximately the same rate as the
populations of neighboring Syria, Egypt and Lebanon for which rates we have
reliable data. That rate of growth was 1.1% per annum. (FTI page 529 table
in note 78)
I used the compounded interest formula to do the math. Applying the 1.1%
growth rate to the Muslim population resident in Palestine in 1882 yields a
total number of 453,000 Muslim descendants in 2015 of these original 105,700
native people.
According to the 2015 World Almanac, the current “Palestinian” population,
including Israeli Arabs, and Arab residents of Gaza, Golan, Judea and Samaria
totals 10,523,715 people. 453,000 descendants of indigenous Muslim residents
constitute only 4.3% of the current “Palestinian” population. Therefore the
other 95.7% of present-day “Palestinians” are clearly those Arabs and their
descendants who migrated to Israel between 1831 and 2015.
Despite the substantial documentation assembled by Peters, demonstrating
massive Arab immigration into Palestine, anti-Israel propagandists continue to
deny it. Based on what we know today, and the simple truths of basic math, the
issue has become clear and unambiguous.
All historic records indicate that only
insignificant number of long-term settled Muslims were present in Palestine
before 1882, when the large Jewish immigration began. Muslim Arab numbers
increased dramatically as Jewish settlements developed infrastructure and
provided work opportunities to Arabs from the neighboring countries.
Also worth noting is that the “indigenous” 4.3% comprised many non-Arab
nationalities. All of them were swamped by the Arab immigrants and within a few
generations lost their identity.
Given the complete absence of any historical record to the contrary, we can
authoritatively say that the “Palestinian people” never existed until they were
invented in the 1960s as a tool for continuing the Arab war against Israel.
The
claim that “Palestinians” are the indigenous people of Israel and that most of
the present Palestinian Arabs have lived in these lands since time immemorial is
a total fraud. Albeit posthumously, Joan Peters has had the last word on the
subject.
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http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/analysis/are-arabs-the-indigenous-people-of-palestine/2015/04/29/
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Review of Joan Peters' book From Time Immemorial.
Peters started her research with the intention of proving Arab rights to Palestine. What she found during the course of her work was that the opposite was true: Israel has belonged to the Jewish people since time immemorial.Joan Peters began this book planning to write about the Arabs who fled Palestine in 1948-49, when armies of the Arab states attempted to destroy the fledgling state of Israel.
In the course of research on this subject, she came across a "seemingly casual" discrepancy between the standard definition of a refugee and the definition used for the Palestinian Arabs.
In other cases, a refugee is someone forced to leave a permanent or habitual home. In this case, however, it is someone who had lived in Palestine for just two years before the flight that began in 1948.
Continue reading: http://www.danielpipes.org/1110/from-time-immemorial
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MOHAMMED NEVER SET FOOT IN THAT CITY -
ISLAM IS THE REAL OCCUPIER
By Eli E. Hertz.
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/04/does-islam-have-true-connection-to.html
THE FORGOTTEN REFUGEES
More than half of Israeli Jews have deep roots in the Middle East and a million of them arrived as refugees from persecution and violence in Arab countries.
But Arabs continue to perpetuate the myth that Jews are "European".
Photo: Jewish refugees from Arab lands fleeing to Israel.
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/10/the-forgotten-refugees-more-than-half.html
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While browsing on the Image a Day blog I found this interesting article:
Chapter: World War I: Did a German Officer Prevent the Massacre of the Jews of Eretz Yisrael during World War I?And Later His Son-In-Law Conspired to Kill Hitler
German General Falkenhayn on the Temple Mt with Jamal
Pasha, Turkish governor of Syria and Palestine, 1916
(Library of Congress collection)
Pasha, Turkish governor of Syria and Palestine, 1916
(Library of Congress collection)
Read more:
You can access this fascinating blog specializing in archival photographic material of Israel here: http://www.israeldailypicture.com/
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