The Physical Palestine
The confusion and arguments arising from the area referred to as
‘Palestine’ seems to have fallen into three historical periods. (1),
Ancient Palestine known as Gaza. (2), Islamic conquests of the Middle
East in the 7th century AD, calling the whole of The Holy Land:
“Palestine”, and/or “Arab Palestine”, and (3), The Palestine under the
rule of the British Mandate until May 1948. During those three periods,
the borders of the so-called Palestine fluctuated, while the name Israel
remained suppressed.
The approximate size of ancient Palestine was a narrow patch of coastal
land. It stretched along the southern seaboard of the Mediterranean Sea,
between Gaza and their northernmost city Ekron, known today as the Gaza
Strip. During the Islamic conquest of the Middle East, in mid-7th
century AD, the territory of the Holy Land of Israel (the Kingdoms of
Israel and Judah) was immensely larger than ‘Gaza’. Gaza took the name
‘Palestine’ in reference to the Aegean invaders of Gaza. Palestinians
ultimately denied their original root and identity by converting to
Islam, just to survive. They abandoned their language and culture,
calling themselves Palestinian Arab, considering Israel as part of
Palestine and not the other way around.
The name ‘Palestine’ was deliberately more than mistakenly given by the
Greeks, to the whole territory, extending from the seashores of Gaza,
all throughout the biblical land of Israel, to the riverbanks of Jordan
and beyond.
The long period of conquests of Asia, by the European invaders, began by
the Palestinian-Aegean argonauts. They landed on the Egyptian shores in
the 12th century BC, and ravaged its seashores. The Egyptians chased
them away and expelled them from their seashores. The Palestinians fled
northward, and landed along the seashore of Gaza (now known as the Gaza
Strip) and stayed put. Centuries later, (335-333 BC) they were followed
by the Greeks under the command of King Alexander the Great of Macedonia
(356-323 BC). The Greeks invaded Anatolia and defeated the Achaemenid
Empire in 330 BC. The Greeks conquered the whole of Asia Minor and
beyond. Syria and Israel being part of the then destroyed Achaemenid
Empire; the Greeks spread the Hellenic culture.
The Israelites being monotheists, they overwhelmingly rejected
Hellenisation. Its success was negligible with the monotheistic Jews -
believers in only one God. Following the demise of Greece, Rome appeared
on the world centre stage ready to take up the role of conquests. Rome
inherited the name “Palestine” for the land of Israel from her
predecessors, and continued its use, and so did subsequent conquerors,
and the name stuck.
Whether for egoistic, political reasons, or sheer ignorance, the Great
Macedonian King compulsively called the whole land of Israel Proper with
the misnomer “Palestine”. The name “Palestine” has since stuck to the
Biblical Land of Israel. Islam considers Israel Proper an integral part
of the Abode of Peace of the Umma Nation. Islam calls the whole Biblical
Land of Israel Arab Palestine.
During the reign of the Khilapha (succession) period and until the
collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century, the name of
the Biblical Land of ‘Israel’ was dropped. Its name was, politically,
documented by Islam as “Palestine”. The name of the religious centre,
‘Urushalim’ Jerusalem became known as ‘Bait Al-Maqdis’ or ‘Al-Quds’ and
its surroundings as the Holy lands. Palestine was given to mean
extension of its geographic landmass to include the whole of the Israeli
territory. It has since been considered an Islamic state, absorbed by
(Dar Al-Silm) the Abode of Peace under the umbrella of the Islamic (Umma)
nation. Islam calls it Palestine.
After the demise and dismemberment of the Greek Empire, the name
‘Palestine’ remained in use. Since the retreat of the Roman Empire from
the Middle East, the term ‘Palestine’ has continued to be used by
Islamic conquerors and Asian invaders. Yet, defiantly, the historical
names of certain ancient kingdoms like Israel, Assyria and Egypt, though
remaining under Islamic occupation since mid-7th Century AD, still
resonate as being, by far more civilized than their Arab occupiers are.
Islam, after destroying and disfiguring most of the artefacts of the
occupied nations of the Middle East and North Africa, has suddenly
declared itself as being the custodian of their ancient history. Iraq,
has already related its history to Mesopotamia (Assyria). The Arabs, in
general, consider Israel as Arab land and her Jewish natives as Arab
residents. Equally so, Egypt considers the Copts, Arab. In spite all of
this and however the occupiers relate such claims to their history, they
are deceptive, parasitic and beyond their time. Their connection will
not hold.
The question, here, arises as to whether Turkey, after it joins the (EU)
European Union, would side with Islam, as did their predecessors during
the Medieval Ages? In the middle Ages, Turkey became a bridgehead to
Europe. Turkey is in persistent denial of ever committing genocides
against the Anatolians, Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians, Egyptian and
Lebanese Christians. It is frightening to imagine that Islam might want
to challenge the West for the control of the waves of the seven high
seas, its sea-lanes and water gates. The Bosporus and Dardanelles are
both under the control of Turkey. Strait of Hormuz is under threat of
closure by Iran; Strait of Malacca has become a safe haven for Pirates.
It falls between two Islamic states: Malaysia and Indonesia. As for the
Strait of Gibraltar, under British control, its retention depends on the
survival of the monkeys that have taken the Rock of Gibraltar as their
habitat. Panama Canal is contracted and is under non-American control.
In addition, along the coast of Somalia and the Gulf of Aden, piracy is
thriving. Over twenty vessels have been pirated, in recent years,
demanding millions of dollars for their release. The high seas have
become lawless – run by Islamic terrorists.
The West had been had. Islam has since become insatiable – It is
determined to control the whole planet earth – through its systematic
grinding process of its exemplary implementation of Jihad. One of its
main objectives is to control the world’s main watergates, straits and
waterways, in order to assert its will and say over maritime routes and
trade.
Christians, as they are supposed to do, ‘give to Caesar what is to
Caesar.’ Now it seems they should also give to the culprits what they
actually deserve. Yet, sometimes they should give twice as much. It is
the only way to make the terrorists understand that unless they fall
into line and abandon their criminal lawlessness, they will have to pay
the price for their impudence and indolence. As nature hates vacuum, so
does humanity hate parasitic behaviour – no more extortion, Jizya
(capitation), fraud and sluggishness.
Islam has been lax, sloppy and indolent for centuries, living at the
expense of several conquered nations – Jews, Assyrians, and Christians
of other nationalities. Islam needs to cast away its old tribal
mentality and come out clean – share and share alike. Or else, they
should retreat to their desert-tent and camel-way life, drinking camel
milk, smoking Qat and sipping imported coffee and tea. Let people live
their lives as they please, and they live theirs. By what right Islam
dictates its spiritual authority on non-Muslims and on Muslims living
outside its rule.
Lebanon, Syria, Israel and Assyria of the Middle East region, including
Coptic Egypt of North Africa, had been systematically invaded and
colonised for centuries. They were conquered and occupied by Eastern and
Western powers and treating them as satrapies and provinces. They were
ruled by Persian, Greek, Roman, and Arab, Mongolian, British and French
belligerents. Native inhabitants of the said conquered states were
heavily tolled, robbed of their wealth and dispossessed of their land.
They were stripped of all their rights and lived the life of
impoverishment and in abject poverty, on a bare minimum. Yet, despite
their ordeal, dire need and loss of life, they have survived. Though
diminished in number, they still exist. Despite all the suffering and
cry for help, they are still under foreign Islamic occupation, shackled
by the Islamic Shari’ah Rule of Law.
The Allies failed to free the native inhabitants of Mesopotamia and
Egypt from the heavy yoke of the brutal Islamic Shari’ah Rule. The
warring nations of WWI, through the Armistice Treaty of 11 November
1918, decided on deracinating the Assyrians and Jews, phasing them out
to total extinction. Instead of freeing the Israelite and the Assyrian
nations from bondage and restoring to them their usurped land, the
Oriental and Western belligerents, used them as bargaining chips. The
Western Allies, then being in a predicament, connived with Islam. They
decided on an easier way out of their dilemma.
To recoup their losses and replenish their empty coffers, both sides of
the warring nations decided on a quick kill by balkanising the whole of
the Middle East. They decided to do away with Assyria all together,
dismember Israel, keep the Christian natives of Lebanon, Syria and
Christian Copt of Egypt shackled under the rule of the Islamic Shari’ah
Rule of Law. Worse still, the Vatican in collaboration with the Western
Quartet, applied the scorched-earth policy to Christian Anatolia, both
people and state, and razed it to the ground. By doing so, both warring
parties helped the nomad Mongol Turks to settle down and urbanise at the
expense of the Christians of the whole of Anatolia’s Near East. The
Anatolians being of the Orthodox faith, the Vatican abandoned them and
offered them as a prey to their enemy for refusing to convert to
Catholicism.
Signatories of the Armistice Treaty of WWI, exhausted and on the brink
of total bankruptcy, balkanised Mesopotamia. They annulled the identity
of the Jews and the Assyrians and left them to fend for themselves. By
doing so, Islam appropriated the whole of the Middle East and Egypt. The
Non-Muslim natives of those regions were dispersed among the Muslim
majority and left them in a miserable state. The nationality of the
dispersed Jews and Assyrians was hence identified by the name of the
then existing countries and or by the names of newly created
Arab/Islamic countries. The Assyrians were hence called Iranian, Iraqi,
Syrian, Turkish or Lebanese. To this day, they remain so, under Islamic
foreign rule.
Subsequently, The Mandates, through the defunct League of Nations,
balkanised the whole of the Middle East, and passed it on to peoples of
only one and the same religion: to Islam. The situation of the Jews and
mostly of the Assyrians worsened. Their national identity was annulled,
and their nations absorbed by the Islamic States of the Abode of Peace.
Since appropriation of their lands, Islam considers the Jews and
Assyrians as extinct or Arab, Iranian, Turk or Kurd. The indigenous
people of Lebanon, historically known as of Phoenician origin, became
known as Lebanese Arab. Peoples of the dispossessed nations: Phoenicians
of Lebanon, Jews of Israel and Assyrians (currently spread all along
Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran) of Mesopotamia and Copts of Egypt still
exist; and so do their language, culture, and Jewish and Christian
religion. Though diminishing, due to constant abuse, they are native
inhabitants of the Middle East and North Africa - not so the
Palestinians. Palestinians are of Aegean origin. They have been fused
with the Arabs. They abandoned their language and culture, embraced
Islam, and melted in the Islamic crucible pot. They have since
assimilated with the Muslim occupiers and been Arabised. Other than the
native Jews, the rest of the residents of Israel are a mixture of Arab
Bedouin, Arabised Africans of foreign backgrounds, calling themselves
Arab. In the eyes of Islam, they are no more than insignificant Ra’aya
groups, such as the Aegean Palestinians, Druse and tent-dweller Arab
Bedouins.
Haitians, for example, just because they speak French, or Indian and
Pakistani subjects of Great Britain speak English, does not make them
Brits of British ancestry. Being accepted as equal, by the host country,
does not give them the right to impose their will on the historically
and well-established native inhabitants of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain. In this case, it is against human decency and against the
international law for invaders and foreign occupiers to overmaster the
native Israelis and Assyrians - and by force? The world seems to be
facing a new era of Islamic neo-colonialism.
‘Palestine’ is a Greek misnomer for (AR-A D’PLISHTAYI) Land of the
Philistines, which originally was no more than the Gaza Strip of today.
Islam seems determined to keep the delusive name ‘Arab Palestine’
afloat, in a desperate attempt to retain the historical Holy Land of
Israel, as part of the Islamic Abode of Peace. Residents of Gaza are no
more than a fused segment with the inhabitants of the Land of Israel.
Assyria, Lebanon and even Syria and Coptic Egypt, are feeling the shock
of a strong tremor, predicting a devastating eruption. Their naves are
put under constant pressure to succumb to the Islamic Shari’ah rule of
Law. They are coerced to become part of an ever-expanding domain of the
(Umma) Nation of Islam, or face the end to their existence. The native
population of these states is in constant decline due to the abusive
Islamic Shari’ah Rule.
Gaza Strip, compared to Biblical Israel, is no more than a matchstick to
an average box of a 50-stick matchbox. The name ‘Palestine’ is a
political term, more than a physical reality; it is a stunt. How long
will this world continue to elude itself and live on deception? The
Kords, with the support of Islam, is playing the same game as the
Palestinians, in a desperate attempt to arrogate Assyria, namely,
Vilayet Mosul (the three Provinces of Kirkuk, Arbil and Ninweh) up to
and including Nuhadra (Duhok), alleging that the territory is part of
so-called Kordestan? now that is another stunt.
The so-called Kords are no more than nomadic drifters from the Zagros
Mountains of Western Iran, all the way up north to Azarbayjan. Their
tracks continue northward, spreading further NE bordering Armenia and
Turkey SW. Historically, Kords are not connected to Mesopotamia. Their
historical roots are beyond the outpost borders of Assyria and ancient
Anatolia. Kords were (and many tribes still are) nomadic herders of
sheep and goats. They moved according to pasturing seasons, beyond the
borders of Assyria Proper. Kords do not use the Mesopotamian script.
They do not speak any Mesopotamian language. They do not carry
Mesopotamian names. No Kordish artefacts of any sort exist in
Mesopotamia to relate their history to Mesopotamia. They are not of the
Semitic race. They are drifters from Iran and northwestern Stan
countries, outside the traditional borders of Assyria. They are
brigands, living on the sweat and blood of the Assyrians and other
non-Muslim native inhabitants of the region they roam.
The traditional habitation of the Kords is in KORDESTAN. In addition,
their capital city is MAHABAD. (Sanandaj was earlier known to be their
first capital city, situated in the South). The presumably known region
as Kordestan is a landlocked region, which falls within the borders of
the Islamic Republic of Iran. Just because of the rapid increase of
their number, drifting from surrounding ‘…stan’ countries does not mean
that they are all of Kordish origin. (Stan is a suffix, meaning Land, or
Place of habitation). The term Stan is in common use in Central Asia.
Squatting on other people’s land, in this instance, Assyria, and calling
it “Kordstan” (Land of the Kords) besides being ridiculous, becomes a
serious threat to expansionism, at the expense of others. Similarly, the
Palestinians are behaving in the same manner as the Kords (George Philip
Limited; pp 96-97; 100-101).
In the aftermath of Post World War II, Islamic States of the Abode of
Peace initially accepted the British mandate of Palestine. While the
Arab Islamic states rejected the international borderlines demarcated by
the League of Nations, insisting that ‘Palestine’ is Arab territory. In
their Covenant, the Arabs defined Palestine, at the time of its
existence, under the British Mandate, as ‘an indivisible territorial
unit.’ The Palestinians wanted all the mandated territory to be brought
under the total dominance of the Palestinian Arabs. The Palestinians
argued that what landscape was left of the Palestinian territory,
outside the mandated borders, had already been brought under dominance
of the Arab countries. They were swallowed up by several neighbouring
and newly created Arab states. They were against any further
dismemberment of the remaining “Palestinian” territory under the British
Mandate. It has still not dawned on Islam that Palestine was no more
than mere Gaza. The Arabs continue swaggering for a better deal,
considering themselves as future masters of the world.
The Palestinians demanded that Palestine be established as a unitary
state, under Arab Palestinian rule, similar to the rest of the Arab
states in the region. The British Mandate rejected their demand. Great
Britain pointed out that it had never made such pledge in the
eight-letter McMahon-Hussein correspondence of 1915-16. Great Britain
remarked that Arab nomadic auxiliary tribes and militias had not
physically participated in the liberation of Palestine, to claim the
whole of Palestine under their Arab rule.
Not all the territory is up for grabs by the Arabs. If the present
Palestinians are truly indigenous to ancient Palestine, claiming the
historical Palestine as their home then let them restrict their claim to
within the borders of the Gaza Strip. If they, as they claim, are Arabs,
then they are invaders and occupiers. Let them accept what the
landowners, the Israelites, have apportioned to them. Israel is a
geopolitical reality and different from Palestine, period.
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