I want to explore a topic that many people find tricky: the situation between Israel and Gaza, home to many Palestinians. People have problems with this issue because there’s so much propaganda from both sides that you don’t know what to believe. So I want to go with historical facts throwing out all the propaganda.
Imagine two groups who see the same piece of land as their own, each with deep historical ties and strong feelings. Based on historical facts, one side offers peace and growth, while the other side only offers death.
Opportunities and Challenges:
Firstly, let’s talk about opportunities. In Israel, people from different backgrounds, including Palestinians, can work and study together. They’re part of everyday life, working in places like shops, restaurants, or hotels. This shows how people can share and learn from one another despite their differences.
However, life in Gaza isn’t easy. Women there face many restrictions, like not being able to drive or express themselves freely, which is very different from what we’re used to in the West.
Religious Freedoms:
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELReligious freedom means being able to practice any religion you believe in. In Israel, you’ll find people of many faiths, including Jews, Muslims, Christians, Druze, and others living together. But in Gaza, it’s been reported that there’s less freedom in this regard, which can often lead to conflict and hardship. In Gaza, you are either Muslim or they kick you out, or worse.
History is a Puzzle:
The land we’re talking about has a long, complex history. For thousands of years, it has seen many rulers and names. In the past, there wasn’t a country called “Palestine,” but it was a region known by that name.
The Jews were the first ones on the land. They have been there for over three thousand years. How do we know this? Because they wrote the Bible, what Christians call the Old Testament, the Jews call the Torah. Among other things, they wrote in the Torah about how they lived in that area. It was written between 1,000 BC and 400 BC. Being that it is 2023, that means that the Jews were on that land at least 3,000 years ago. And in all that time, there were always Jews on the land. In all that time, there were three Jewish kingdoms, and there was never an Arab kingdom, a Palestinian kingdom, a Muslim kingdom, or any other kind of kingdom.
Over those millennia, the Jewish people had many conquerors. There were the Romans, the Byzantines, Alexander the Great, and others. The last to occupy the land was the Ottoman Empire.
After WWI, as the Ottoman Empire was collapsing, they handed all of that land to the League of Nations. That was the precursor to the United Nations. And I’m talking about all of Palestine, including Jordan, what is now Israel, Gaza, the West Bank, all of it.
The League of Nations then gave it to the British with a mandate called The Mandate For Palestine. The Mandate For Palestine was a specific project for the British to create a Jewish national home in the land. The land set aside for the Jewish national home was all of what is today Jordan, all of what is today Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza.
In the end, the Brits gave the land to the east to the Arabs, making Jordan Arab land. And everything else went to the Jews. This eventually led to the formation of the state of Israel, which would become the third Jewish kingdom in that land since the Jews first inhabited it.
This means that the only country in the entire world and all throughout history that actually has a legal claim to the land of Gaza is Israel.
About Occupations:
Palestinians and their supporters like to use the term “occupation” when talking about Israel in their own land. It conjures up images of Israeli soldiers in full combat gear standing over the Palestinian people in Gaza aiming rifles at them. It’s nonsense, but so many people fall for it.
After the recent savage terrorist attacks on innocent Israelis, Palestinian supporters, who are really Hamas supporters but are too cowardly to say so, talked about “ending the occupation” in Gaza. I ask, what occupation?
Israel gave Gaza to the Palestinians in 2005. It was legally their land to give away. Israel walked away from Gaza and two years later, the Palestinians elected their government. They chose to elect Hamas, a violent terrorist group with one goal; to slaughter every Jewish man, woman, and child in Israel. The Hamas government neglected their people in order to fulfill their mission of death to Israel.
Palestinians have a motto: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” What they mean by that is all of Palestine will be free of Jews because their stated goal is to kill every last Jew.
Egypt occupied the land of Gaza from 1948 to 1967, and it was a real occupation. But the terror supporters never wanted to use the term “occupation” when it comes to Arabs. And that’s because it’s all about hating Jews, and not wanting to recognize Jewish authority over Muslims. As Hassan al-Banna , the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, said, “Islam will be dominant and not dominated.”
So, these people didn’t mind when Egypt was occupying the territory, even though that was an actual occupation because the land was legally given to the Jews.
Nobody at that time ever talked about Palestinian rights, and that’s because up until then Palestinians were not mentioned at any time in the history of the world.
There were no “Palestinians” until the word was invented in the 1960s for political reasons. When Israel declared its independence in 1948, they were known as the Arabs from the local area.
Palestine was a region, and the name was given by the Romans to Judea, which means “Land of the Jews,” because the Roman emperor wanted all memory of the people there to be erased. What crimes did the Jews in Judea commit to bring this about? They kept fighting the Romans to free themselves from Roman slavery. They got the name from the Philistines, an ancient arch-enemy of the Jewish people.
The Palestinian nationality was invented in the 1960s as a rhetorical weapon against Israel, and it has worked really well since the Marxists of the world took them under their wing as an oppressed people.
The fact that there was no anger whatsoever while Egypt was occupying Gaza for 19 years is just an indication that this is really all about Islam and the Jews. And with Egypt being Muslim, there was no problem about it being an occupation.
So, think about it. Israel is the only country in the world that has a legal claim to Gaza, and the Palestinians kept saying they were occupying Gaza. How can you be an occupier when you own the land? And even so, Israel left Gaza to the Palestinians in 2005. There was never an occupation.
Did the Palestinians Ever Really Want Peace?:
In 1947, the United Nations offered to partition what was left of the Mandate for Palestine, which was supposed to be the Jewish national home, to create a Jewish state and an Arab state. Yet another Arab state. There were already 22 Arab countries. But that was not good enough. They had to have 23.
The Jews agreed to the partition right away. The Arabs rejected it. This means the Jews were willing to give up land that they and only they legally owned to the Arabs, and the Arabs rejected it.
The Arabs rejected a Palestinian state in 1948. So, then why have they been complaining that they want a Palestinian state ever since? It doesn’t end there.
Then, in 1967, the offer was made again after The Six-Day War. The Arabs rejected it.
And again in the 1970s at the Camp David Accords. The Arabs rejected it.
And again in the 1990s at the Oslo Accords. The Arabs rejected it.
In the 2000s, the Prime Minister of Israel made an offer for everything that the Palestinians were demanding. It was between 95 and 99% of the territorial demands they were making. And once again, they turned it down.
So, the idea that the Palestinians wanted to make peace, and it was the Israelis who rejected it, is completely ahistorical. It’s literally the other way around.
Contrary to the lies of the Palestinians and their supporters, no Arab state has ever accepted the right of a Jewish state to exist in that land, even though the Jews have been there for over three millennia. Islam wasn’t even invented until the 7th century.
So the whole argument that the Jews of Israel are the reason there’s no peace in the Middle East is a complete fallacy.
All the Palestinian groups, all of them over time, have wanted to destroy Israel and kill every Jew.
If Israel is to create a mandate for a two-state solution where Jews and Arabs will co-exist, the Arabs have to first recognize that Israel has the right to exist. They never have and they never will.
