Instead of memorializing the Nakba, an Arab self-inflicted “catastrophe,” it’s time you started telling the truth about it.“Nakba,” the Arab word for catastrophe is the day the Arabs commemorate the day that the State of Israel was established. They call it a catastrophe because it is the day they lost a war that they started – a self-inflicted “catastrophe.” Yet the world likes to sympathize with their plight and ignore this very important fact in its reporting.
Dr. Richard L. Cravatts (h/t Frederic F) On May 16th, members of The Squad, including Representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, McCollum, and others, introduced a loathsome resolution, H. RES. 1123, which had as its purpose “Recognizing the Nakba and Palestinian refugees’ rights” and to “commemorate the Nakba,” the catastrophe you assign to Israel’s creation, “through official recognition and remembrance.” According to your baleful resolution, the Nakba not only took place at Israel’s founding “but [refers] to an ongoing process of Israel’s expropriation of Palestinian land and its dispossession of the Palestinian people that continues to this day.”
This resolution is yet another manifestation of your narcissistic victimology, a corrosive point of view in which the very creation and continued existence of Israel, according to you, is an ongoing tragedy because, in your contorted view, Israel’s “violence and war crimes are an ongoing and ever-present assault on the existence and humanity of the Palestinian people. The Israeli apartheid government’s ongoing ethnic cleansing seeks to degrade Palestinian humanity and break the will of the people to be free.”
Your resolution reiterates the historically inaccurate and delusional claim that Jews have no indigeneity to the territories that became current-day Israel, that all of historic Palestine (the Roman’s ancient name for Judea) is somehow “Palestinian Arab land,” and that the millions of Palestinian Arab refugees created by your people’s repeated rejection of offers of statehood—in 1937, 1947, 1967, 2000, and other occasions—is the sole reason that you continually look backward, wishing history had unfolded differently.
As a result, you have allowed millions of Palestinian Arabs for decades to languish, wretched and stateless, in refugee camps—all the while blaming Israel for their circumstances and ignoring the fact that your leaders’ own bad decisions and truculence caused this human tragedy.
The more serious question for you is, why, of all people on earth, are Jews the only ones who are regularly denounced for living in a certain neighborhood, especially since it is land on which Jews have lived for millennia? Wars have consequences, and if you start a war over territory and lose it in that conflict, you cannot expect to dictate what the victor now does with that property.
Your irrational focus on the predations of Israel and its essential illegitimacy for a host of reasons you and your fellow bigots regularly trot out leads you to ignore any of the tragedy, loss, and suffering Israelis endured as a result of Arab aggression and specifically, the Palestinian Arab refusal to ever acknowledge the Jewish state, starting with the War of Independence in 1948. Palestinian Arabs and their supporters continually describe how they wish to “liberate” Palestine and rid it of its annoying Jews.
But your vision, of course, does not mean transforming Palestine into a democratic, open society where members of three major faiths can live freely and practice their religions openly. Liberating Palestine for you and your people would be more in keeping with the type of liberation that Transjordan’s Arab League effected when they burned and looted the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem in 1948; expelled and killed its hapless Jewish population; destroyed some 58 synagogues, many hundreds of years old; unearthed gravestones from the history-laden Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives and used them for latrine pavers; and barred any Jew from praying at the Western Wall or entering the Temple Mount.
Remember, too, that in the war of Israel’s independence—a war begun by your Arab supporters to strangle the Jewish state at birth—Israel lost some 6000 of its citizens, one percent of its then-population (equivalent to the U.S. losing 3,300,000 lives in a conflict). So, the Nakba which you launched and now complain you suffered—and continue to suffer—alone, had Jewish victims as well.
The most delusional aspect is the resolution’s absurd call for the 5-6 million Palestinian Arabs who you consider to be refugees to return to their homes. In other words, as is characteristic of the Palestinian Arab monomaniacal irredentism, rather than populate a new Palestinian state as was envisioned by the League of Nations and later the United Nations, you believe that Palestinian Arab “refugees” (including their descendants) should return to present-day Israel, subsuming the Jewish state.
The demand for a right of return, a notion which Palestinian Arabs and your supporters refer to as “sacred” and an “enshrined” universal human right granted by UN resolutions and international law, in fact, has, as you as a government official should know, no legal or diplomatic standing at all, and is part of the propaganda campaign that is based on the thinking that if Israel cannot be eradicated by the Arabs though war, it can effectively be destroyed by forcing it to commit demographic suicide.
In the first place, it uses the fraud you propagate that the Palestinian Arabs were “victimized” by the creation of Israel, that they were expelled from a land of “Palestine” where they were the indigenous people “from time immemorial,” as historian Joan Peters put it in her book of the same name, but referring by it to Jewish history in the land..
More importantly, far from being either a “sacred” or, for that matter, legal right, the “right of return” is a one-sided concoction that deliberately misreads United Nations resolutions for political advantage, and conveniently embraces only those portions that fit the intent of Arabs to make good on their intent to “drive Israel into the sea.” In continually repeating the lie that they are victims of the “Zionist regime” and that they were expelled from a country of their own and condemned to unending refugee status, the Palestinian Arabs—and their enablers like you—have prolonged the myth of victimhood.
There is some irony in the fact that Palestinian Arabs have repeatedly violated both the spirit and intent of UN resolution 194, that particular UN resolution containing a reference to the concept of ‘return’ to one’s country, although two key points are characteristically ignored by you and others pointing to this source as justification for asserting a legal claim.
First, Resolution 194 was the product of the UN General Assembly and “is an expression of sentiment and carries no binding force whatsoever,” meaning that it is meant to make recommendations but not law. What it did suggest, however, was that “the refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbors should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property . . . .”
That permission, as you conveniently see fit to ignore, is modified by two conditions —that the refugee wishes to return, and that he wishes to live at peace with his neighbors,” something which you even now, have clearly never seen fit to do, preferring to whine about Israel’s existence and the absence of Palestinian Arab self-determination—something of your own making.
Legal scholars also point out that international law grants the right to leave or return to one’s country only to individuals, not as a collective right as you claim. More importantly, no population of refugees has ever presumed that the right of return—if such a right even exists—could be claimed, not only by the original refugees but also by all of their descendants.
The demand made by you in this resolution that the 6-7 million descendants of the original Palestinian refugees —children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren—be allowed to return to Israel, to homes they have never lived in or seen and which may or may not even exist any longer, is not only a delusional fantasy that will never be agreed to by Israel but has no validity in international law, especially since the so-called refugees were never citizens of Israel in the first place.
And the drafters of the UN resolution were very careful to not specify which refugees were referenced there. You and your fellow travelers assume it described Arabs, but there is another significant aspect of the “refugee” problem from the 1940s that those demanding a right of return for Palestinian Arab refugees conveniently forget: some 850,000 Jews, some of whom had lived in Arab lands for 1000 years, were expelled and all their wealth (estimated to be about ten times that of the Arab Palestinians) was confiscated in response to and as punishment for the creation of Israel.
As is typical of your analysis of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, all nuance and context are conspicuously absent in your discussion, and neither you nor other pro-Palestinians recognize the lost possessions, homes, property, and citizenships of Jews in 1948—itself a cultural, social, religious, and ethnic catastrophe of equal or greater proportion than the one you valorize. And, unlike the Palestinian Arabs, those 850,000 Jews did not languish as victims for generations in refugee camps and whine about a right of return, or reparations, or the injustices that had been done to them, choosing instead to settle in Israel or to the United States or elsewhere and move forward even as history had dealt them a catastrophic set of circumstances.
Of course, your resolution also completely omits the rather significant fact that The Arab-Israeli War of 1948 was initiated, not, as you claim, by random and murderous Zionist militias, but because of the attack on nascent Israel by five invading Arab armies, intent on driving every Jew into the sea and killing the rest in what they described as a glorious war of extermination. Your Nakba mourns the fact that those genocidal campaigns failed.
Had you and your people accepted United Nations Resolution 181, which would have created a Palestinian state at the same time the Jewish one was created, and not instead launched a war to destroy Israel altogether, you would now be celebrating 74 years of statehood instead of recalling the self-inflicted Nakba which is the actual source of the refugee problem. The real catastrophe is that Arab leaders, in their obsession to not acknowledge the Jewish sovereignty of Israel, preferred to create a refugee crisis and use it for decades as a moral cudgel with which to batter Israel.
Why should the U.S. Congress now acknowledge and affirm the disastrous decisions made by your genocidal leaders who were, and are, so opposed to a Jewish sovereignty that they were willing to sacrifice generations of their own people rather than recognize and tolerate Israel next door?
In 2016, as you recall, you made a grotesque comment in a podcast in which you claimed that “There’s always kind of a calming feeling I tell folks when I think of the Holocaust . . . and the fact that it was my ancestors—Palestinians —” who did so “ in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews . . ,” reflecting your delusional view, first, that Palestinian Arabs did anything to benefit Jews crawling out of the ashes of the Holocaust, and, second, that a Jewish connection to Palestine only began when European Jews began arriving after World War II.
Washington Examiner Tlaib said “There’s always kind of a calming feeling I tell folks when I think of the Holocaust, and the tragedy of the Holocaust, and the fact that it was my ancestors — “Palestinians” — who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, their human dignity, their existence in many ways, have been wiped out.”
“And just all of it was in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews, post-the Holocaust, post-the tragedy and the horrific persecution of Jews across the world at that time. And I love the fact that it was my ancestors that provided that, right, in many ways. But they did it in a way that took their human dignity away and it was forced on them.”
ME Infidel says
Whining has been good for the cause (of individuals). Maybe that’s what Tlaib is up to? https://jij.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/JIJ-Fact-Sheet-2-Money-EN-A4-ver-12.pdf
BareNakedIslam says
Thanks ME, added those charts to the post.
Me Infidel says
The Jewish tribes rejected the ProMo as a ligitmate prophet 1,400 years ago. Instead of Muslims holding a grudge for that long it might’ve been in their better interest to focus on things such as education, the sciences, medicine, etc. and also develop some sort of work ethic. After all, the Koran is hardly the perfect and only book necessary for all mankind.
For example, there are 15 million Jews worldwide vs. 1.8 billion Muslims, nearly 23% of the earth’s population. Yet, Jews have been awarded 203 Nobel Prizes vs. 13 for Muslims (14, if you count Obama’s Peace Prize). C’mon man!
Linda Rivera says
Quran (8:12) “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them”
The wicked Muslim liar claiming that Israel’s re-birth is a Catastrophe insults and BLASPHEMES Almighty God who gave Israel to Jews as an Everlasting Possession thousands of years before the MURDER BLOOD CONQUEST Cult of Islam was invented.
Who are these Muslims and leftists — mere humans, to OPPOSE the One Great God of the Universe, Pure, Holy and Absolutely Good, our Glorious, Majestic, Awesome Creator who dwells in unapproachable light?
Linda Rivera says
The Enemies of Jews and Israel are the ENEMIES of
ALMIGHTY GOD:
BIBLE, Psalm 83:1-5
O God, do not remain quiet;
Do not be silent and, O God, do not be still.
2
For behold, Your enemies make an uproar,
And those who hate You have exalted themselves.
3
They make shrewd plans against Your people,
And conspire together against Your treasured ones.
4
They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation,
That the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
5
For they have conspired together with one mind;
Against You they make a covenant……
VMS says
First, Dr. Cravatt’s article is well beyond the reading comprehension ability of the Jihad Squad, and its length is beyond their attention span. But, even if that were not the case, the Jihad Squad would stick to its story because that is the story that their ignorant constituents want to hear, and that is the story that they want to tell.
I would understand if the Jihad squad were advocating for economic aid for their respective districts, even if the amount were objectively unreasonable, or, if the Jihad Squad asked for pet federally financed projects that only benefit their districts and engaged in “log-rolling” to make it happen. That’s their job.
I would also understand if Congress gave them some slack to sound off on an inane topic on the congressional floor soapbox, such as congresswoman Corrie Brown did with her widely broadcast “Go Gata” speech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgbBP9Em00A
But, these CongressMuslims want to give congressional recognition to a diplomatic position that is diametrically opposite to the position and interests of the United States, and that is where we must dry the line, even if they bang their heads on the congressional floor 5 times a day.
BareNakedIslam says
At one time, I would have been sure Congress would have laughed at a stupid resolution like this. Now, I’m not so sure.
VMS says
I’m still confident that this will fail when it comes to a vote. The only good thing that can come of it is it will identify those in Congress that need to get voted out.
BareNakedIslam says
Agreed.
BLR says
Truth ! it is so clean so easy to recall to memory can be cut up covered over ignored not spoken but it does not disappear or change , Truth has the power to destroy ten thousand times ten thousand untruths … we all see that here , deniers are unreasonable liars “aka” Palestinians from never was a land
Abdul says
Most of the Arabs came to “Palestine” Judea under England, just like today, they go where the west is, for work and stability etc, if Zionists are so evil, why Muslims rape and destroy people and property in Sweden or Germany? Does Sweden or Germany occupy their territories?
Andy in oz says
The main point that is often missed and rarely talked about, except by those who know this, during the time of the Ottoman Empire and it’s attempt to irrigate Israel, with little to no success, the Arab ‘landowners’ started selling the land ‘back’ to the Jews. They also charged them rates well above ‘common market prices’.
Now, this didn’t matter to the Jewish people. Being able to purchase their country, with the support of the ruling empire, basically guaranteed their future.
After the first world war, the British and French ‘divided’ the land the Balfour agreement’, and set today’s aggression in motion. This was not an accident. European hatred of jewry goes back centuries , especially as Rome had instigated the term ‘christ killers’, baby eaters’ etc.
At the end of the 2nd world war Britain armed the Arabs and disarmed Israel. They also managed to create enemies of both sides, their ‘treatment’ of all the people was atrocious. The withdrawal of British troops, permanently, must have felt like a huge loss to a now, defunct empire.
I’ve often wondered, how could a country decide to take part in an extermination project against an unarmed people, who have just suffered the most abhorrent behaviour and murder of millions against them, to knowingly arm their enemies in the hope that the ‘problem’ would finally be dealt with.
This is what happens when God is seen through distorted eyes and ‘replacement theology’. The ‘jews’ are the reason the whole world is a mess.
Now, God has saved Israel many times. Even recently there have been reports of the Hand of God deflecting missiles away from the people. His promises to preserve His people Israel are eternal. His promises to wipe away their enemies, forever, are also eternal.
The ‘invasion’ of Europe, England, America and others by the ‘plague of islam’, shows the breaking down of society as we know it.
The proof and the reports are everywhere.
Yes, it’s so easy to become a part of any countries people by joining in and making an effort.
By staying separate, confined and militant in their views, as witnessed by the videos, they create the ‘us and them’ everywhere they go.
The goal of islam to force the whole world under it’s rule, like the Taliban, should have been the red flag that stopped the recent ‘invasion’ of Europe.
Instead, we have these brain dead morons telling us we have to accept this. They would not be so vocal with a sword at their necks.
This is the ‘threat’ islam brings to the world, do as we demand or we will kill you.
As Gadaffi said “the next war will be won without firing a bullet’.
As for the land of palestine it’s one of the biggest lies ever told. How come, people who flee arab states, Syria, Iraq, etc, are instantly ‘palestinian refugees’ the moment they flee. How do they lose their nationality, immediately.
As for the ‘right to return’, 90% of the population would have to go to Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Iran. That’s where their ancestors are from. Will they go there, would they even be accepted.
The arab world is a very strange mess of tribal factions and greedy ‘heads’ who only care about themselves.
One day, I think, the arab world will implode on itself. It will only take, 1 really catastrophic event, that can’t be blamed on Israel, for the pot to finally boil over. One day, maybe, that day, isn’t so far away.
Oh yes, who will pick up the pieces and offer help Israel, because, that’s what they do.
They truly are, the chosen people and, I believe, I know, God will always protect them.
Inspired Infidel says
Islam is no more a religion than the Hell’s Angels motorcycle club. I like motorcycles but wouldn’t want any of the Hell’s Angels in congress. I don’t think people with dual citizenship should even be eligible to run for office. Look at how much damage Oprah’s last candidate did to America.
Andrew+Blackadder says
When The State of Israel was created there was no such thing as ”palestine land” nor was there a people known as ”palestinians”, that narrative was created some years later, by an Egyptian no less, in 1967….
So what the hell are these morons talking about?..
Thats not a trick question.
Israel,Gaza, ”West Bank”, all three live in the exact same neighborhood, the exact same Desert climate and yet only one of these three areas is now known today as a Hi Tech Corridor of innovation..
Which one could that possibly be… and WHY?..
Again, not a trick question…