Professor James M. Rubenstein
Laurie Cardoza-Moore
Justin takes Professor James M. Rubenstein to task for writing a book that is plush with revisionist history that leaves an anti-Jewish footprint and a pro-Arab footprint when it comes to Israel’s existence as a Jewish-State.
JRH 8/1/13
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The Jews' Valid Claim/ or Beneath Islamic Propaganda
By Justin O. Smith
August 1, 2013 at 10:01am
The following text is anti-Jewish more than it is anti-Semitic, but it is still anti-Semitic from both a historical and a moral viewpoint concerning the controversial issues surrounding Israel and the "Palestinian state". Professor James M. Rubenstein, author of 'The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography” is either knowingly advancing the islamofascists' propaganda and agenda, or, possibly, his own education indoctrinated him to such a point that he received a Ph.D. despite his ignorance in the field; whatever the case, Mrs. Laurie Cardoza-Moore and the Jewish community are rightfully concerned and should be quite angry with the Williamson County School Board, especially when one understands the false premise and assumptions associated with the text.
From the text: Distinguishing terrorism from other acts of political violence can be difficult. For example, if a Palestinian suicide bomber kills several dozen Israeli teenagers in a Jerusalem restaurant, is it an act of terrorism or wartime retaliation against Israeli government policies and army actions? Competing arguments are made: Israel's sympathizers denounce the act as a terrorist threat to the country's existence, whereas advocates to the Palestinian cause argue that longstanding injustices and Israeli army attacks on ordinary Palestinian civilians provoked the act.
The word "Palestine" does not occur in the Old or New Testament at all; after the Jewish revolt of Bar-Kokhba in 135 AD, the Romans renamed Judea to be "Palestine" or "Syria Palestina", with the intention of obliterating its Jewish identity. The earlier name never disappeared, and as late as the 4th century, Christian author Epiphanus referred to "Palestine, that is Judea".
The "Arab Palestinian" was never a serious age-old or even century-old national identity. The term was introduced as a tool after the 1967 Six Day War, and, according to the British Palestine Royal Commission Report, "In the twelve centuries or more that have passed since the Arab conquest... In the realm of thought, in science or in letters, it (Palestine) made no contribution to modern civilization".
As Rosemary Sayigh wrote in the 'Journal of Palestine Studies', "a strongly defined Palestinian identity did not emerge until 1968, two decades after expulsion". It had taken twenty years to establish the "myth" prescribed by Muslim activist Musa Alami.
Upon the emergence of the Sovereign Jewish State of Israel in 1948, there were no more than 430,000 genuine Arab refugees, although the UN asserted 500,000 officially. 750,000 Jews were dispossessed and forcibly expelled during this same period.
President Truman's International Development Advisory Board, March 7, 1951, and the Arab sponsored Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut agreed that 68% of the Arab refugees left in 1948 at the urging of Arab leaders and Islamic imams, rather than any expulsion by the Israeli military. As some Arab leaders demanded the "return" of the "expelled" refugees, Emile Ghoury, Secretary of the Arab Higher Command, told the 'Beirut Telegraph' on August 6, 1948: "It is inconceivable that the refugees should be sent back to their homes while they are occupied by Jews... It would serve as a first step toward Arab recognition of the state of Israel and Partition".
From Khaled Al-Azym's 1972 memoirs (Syrian Prime Minister 1948): "Since 1948 it is we who demanded the return of the refugees...while it is we who made them leave... We brought disaster upon...Arab refugees by...bringing pressure upon them to leave...We have rendered them dispossessed...Then we exploited them in executing crimes of murder, arson and throwing bombs upon...men, women and children - all this in the service of political purposes".
In 1958, former director of the UN Relief and Work Agency, Ralph Galloway declared emphatically that "the Arab states do not want to solve the refugee problem. They want to keep it as an open sore... a weapon against Israel. Arab leaders do not give a damn whether Arab refugees live or die!"
During the 1950s, a population exchange occurred between India and Pakistan, as 8.5 million Sikhs and Hindus from Pakistan fled to India, and approximately 6.5 million Muslims moved from India to Pakistan; a precedent for such population transfers was set by Turkey and Bulgaria in 1913, and in 1923, Turkey and Greece exchanged 1.25 million Greeks and 3.55 million Turks.
Why wouldn't such a population exchange have worked with the Jews and the Muslims?
A mutual repatriation obviously could not be demanded if one side of an exchange had fled from intolerable conditions and could not return. Hence, the Arab lie emerged that the "alien" Jews had lived harmoniously among the "native" Arab Muslims before Israel became a state and the mythical "Palestinian" was created.
In Egypt after the Sinai Campaign of 1956, thousands of Jews were interned without trial, while still others were served with deportation papers and ordered to leave within days; their property was confiscated, their assets frozen.
In Iraq, Zionism became a capital crime, and Jews were hanged in the center of Baghdad, in front of cheering crowds of Muslims. Although no laws authorized the confiscation of Jewish property in Iraq before 1950, the Jews were stripped of millions of dollars through economic discrimination and government extortion.
Anti-Jewish broadcasts from Egypt in response to the partition of Palestine resulted in the December 2, 1947 pogrom in Aden. Eighty-two Jews were murdered, scores more were wounded, while 111 Jewish stores were robbed bare and over 200 Jewish homes and four synagogues were burned to the ground; Aden's 1958 riots directed violence and murder at the Jewish community once again; after the 1967 Six Day War, it became apparent that the islamofascists were preparing to massacre what remained of the Jewish community, and the British evacuated them. And this scene was repeated time and again across the entire Arab Muslim world!
Reverend James Parkes observed in 1949: It was only politically that the Jews lost their land. They never abandoned it physically, nor did they renounce their claim to their nation... the only continuous claim that exists. The Jews never submitted to assimilation into various victorious populations even after successive conquerors had devastated the Jewish organizational structure.
Buried beneath the propaganda of the Arab nations, the Organization for Islamic Cooperation and the islamofascists, one finds that more than 40 Jewish communities survived and could be traced in the 6th century, despite physical violence against the Jews by the post-Roman Christians and Muslims. Twelve of these towns are on the coast, in the Negev, and east of Jordan (Transjordan and the "Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan"), and thirty-one villages are in Galilee and the Jordan Valley.
After the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Albert Memmi, a Tunisian-born writer, responded to a Libyan official's invitation to Libyan Jews to return to Libya:
"Is it true that you have said that the Jews have always lived at peace in the Arab countries? And that you have nothing against Jews, only Zionists?...The error which may have been made at Deir Yassine (Palestinian Jewish Irgun and Stern troops inadvertently killed 250 Arab civilians in 1948) is constantly thrown in our faces. Ah, but we have undergone a hundred Deir Yassines, a thousand Deir Yassines! And not only in Russia, Germany or Poland, but also at the hand of the Arab people; yet the world has never been upset over it!... if you really wanted to avoid having us come together on this particular bit of land,... Israel..., then why did you hound us and expel us from the regions over which your power extends?"
Today and despite John Kerry's new "peace-talk" initiative between Israel and the "Palestinians"/Arab Muslims, the islamofascists in Gaza and the West Bank, especially Hamas, perpetuate this false national identity, and in so doing, they sacrifice the wellbeing and lives of the "Arab refugees"; they hope only to accomplish, politically and through continued, if sporadic, terrorism, the destruction of an unacceptable sovereign Jewish state... dhimmi Jews from Islamic lands now acting as their equals... as it represents an affront to all Islamic nations.
Muslim propaganda has effectively hidden the fact that Arab/Islamic nations have virtually purged their Jews, as the European Union, the United States and the rest of the world ignores the plight Arab-born Jews have faced historically - the camps, squalor, displacement, theft of property and a loss of security and murdered kinsmen; raise the question of "Middle East refugees" with any number of academics, such as Professor Rubenstein, professionals or just regular workers, and they refer to the Arab "Palestinians". It is as though the painful and horrifically sad story of the Arab-born Jewish refugees had been erased: the revisionist history of the anti-Jewish Leftists and islamofascists must be rejected and corrected!
Justin O. Smith
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© Justin O. Smith
Editing John R. Houk
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