John R. Houk
© December 24, 2016
UN
Security Draft Resolution Condemning Israel over Jewish Settlements in eastern
Jerusalem and Judea-Samaria - click to enlarge
President Barack Hussein Obama has betrayed Israel by
allowing the UN Security Council to create a binding international resolution
that steals the eastern half of Jerusalem as well as Judea and Samaria (renamed
the West Bank by a conquering Jordan in 1950) to create a national state
for a group of Arabs that NEVER had an individual nation or a heritage to Judea
and Samaria. Indeed, the name these Arabs are appropriating had a closer
historical connection to Jews than it ever did to Muslim Arabs – Palestine.
The very name “Palestine” was coined by Romans weary of
Jewish rebellions against Roman conquest. The English version of the word
Palestine comes from the ancient enemies of Israel – the Philistines.
After the Romans expelled or killed most of the Jews from
their national homeland the Romans decided to call the area Palastina after
the Jewish ancient enemies as part of a de-Judification plan to end Jewish rebellions.
Here is a decent run-down of the word “Palestine”:
What Does "Palestine"
Mean?
It has never been the name of a
nation or state. It is a geographical term, used to designate the region at
those times in history when there is no nation or state there.
The word itself derives from "Peleshet",
a name that appears frequently in the Bible and has come into English as
"Philistine". The name began to be used in the Thirteenth Century
BCE, for a wave of migrant "Sea Peoples" who came from the area of
the Aegean Sea and the Greek Islands and settled on the southern coast of the
land of Canaan. There they established five independent city-states (including
Gaza) on a narrow strip of land known as Philistia. The Greeks and Romans
called it "Palastina".
The Philistines were not Arabs,
they were not Semites. They had no connection, ethnic, linguistic or historical
with Arabia or Arabs. The name "Falastin" that Arabs today use for
"Palestine" is not an Arabic name. It is the Arab pronunciation of the
Greco-Roman "Palastina" derived from the Peleshet.
How Did the Land of Israel
Become "Palestine"?
In the First Century CE, the Romans
crushed the independent kingdom of Judea. After the failed rebellion of Bar
Kokhba in the Second Century CE, the Roman Emperor Hadrian determined to wipe
out the identity of Israel-Judah-Judea. Therefore, he took the name Palastina
and imposed it on all the Land of Israel. At the same time, he changed the name
of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina.
The Romans killed many Jews and
sold many more in slavery. Some of those who survived still alive and free left
the devastated country, but there was never a complete abandonment of the Land.
There was never a time when there were not Jews and Jewish communities, though
the size and conditions of those communities fluctuated greatly. (The History and Meaning of
"Palestine" and "Palestinians"; Derived
from Tzemach Institute for Biblical Studies; Indaweb.com)
Yup Pilgrim, NO Palestinian
Muslims of nationality or heritage. AND YET American Leftists and EU
Multiculturalists are intent on stealing from Jewish Israel and give to
interloper Arab Muslims who stole the name Palestine and Palestinian:
Under
the Ottoman Empire (1517-1917),
the term Palestine was used as a general term to describe the land south of Syria; it was not an official
designation. In fact, many Ottomans and Arabs who lived in Palestine during
this time period referred to the area as "Southern Syria" and not as
"Palestine."
After World War I, the name
"Palestine" was applied to the territory that was placed under British Mandate; this area
included not only present-day Israel but also present-day Jordan.
Leading
up to Israel's independence in 1948, it
was common for the international press to label Jews, not Arabs, living in the
mandate as Palestinians. It was not until years after Israeli independence that
the Arabs living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip were called
Palestinians.
The
word Palestine or Filastin does not appear in the Koran. The term peleshet appears
in the Jewish Tanakh [Blog Editor:
Christians call the Tanakh the Old Testament] no fewer than 250 times. (Israel: Origins of the Name
"Palestine"; Jewish Virtual Library)
After reading this
information it should boggle an honest person’s mind as it does mine, that the
Obama Left and Europeans under the auspices of the EU would rob land from
Israel!
Most Americans are still very
supportive of Israel and its existence. The American Left that believes in the
existence of Israel yet supports Boycott, Divest and Sanction
(BDS) against Israel because of the idiotic belief the Jewish State is
occupying Palestinian land are unwittingly supporting the Muslim-hatred to kill
all Jews. Pay attention Left Wing Jews in America that support BDS.
Ergo we Americans that
believe in protecting Israel’s heritage need to shout loudly from the rooftops
about the Lame Duck Obama move to screw Israel by abstaining from the UN
Security Council resolution that robs land from the Jews. Whoever wrote the New York
Sun editorial suggesting that Congress divest American support
to the United Nations is brilliant!
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A Problem From Hell, Indeed
Editors
December 23, 2016
The best way for
President-elect Trump to view the
Obama administration’s betrayal of Israel in the United Nations is as the
starting bell for a campaign to defund the world body. This is already being
signaled by Senator Lindsey Graham, who chairs the Appropriations Subcommittee
on the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs. That
gives him direct oversight of our U.N. budget. It puts him in perfect position
to ally with Mr. Trump in charting a course away from a United Nations that has
jumped its traces.
The resolution just passed by
the Security Council, though ostensibly even handed, crosses a line that the
Council has heretofore, and for good reason, shrunk from crossing. It seeks to
expose Israel to legal action from an international boycott movement. President
Obama, all too typically, seeks to blame Prime Minister Netanyahu, who has had
the temerity to assert the right of Jews to settle in the biblical homelands of
Judea and Samaria. The right policy would be to support such settlements, which
are intrinsic to the Zionist ideal.
Instead, Mr. Obama has given
us a study in perfidy. He had Secretary Kerry and Ambassador Power stand silent
while the plot was being hatched. He allied with far-left factions on a policy
that emboldened Israel’s foes to advance a measure could make Judea and Samaria Judenrein. Even
Egypt, once it understood President-elect Trump’s position, was loath to
present the measure to the Security Council. Ambassador Power claimed to be
acting in the spirit of President Reagan, who never in a million years would
have let such a resolution pass.
U.S. State Department
via Wikipedia
HELL HATH NO FURY:
Hell hath no fury like Congress scorned seems to be the message from Senator
Lindsey Graham in face of the prospect of the Obama administration betraying
Israel in the Security Council. The vote today underlines the fact that the UN
itself has become a problem from hell, to use the phrase Ambassador Power made
famous in another context. The ambassador abstained today from a resolution
aimed at the delegitimization of the Jewish state.
It’s not just Reagan who is
being mocked. Ambassador Power sought to cloak her abstention in the mantle of
Presidents George H.W. Bush, Clinton, and George W. Bush, though no such
resolution passed — or even was permitted to come to a vote — during their
presidencies. All of them would have vetoed such a resolution. The ambassador’s
claims are part of the sneakiness, the dissembling with which she has conducted
her diplomacy. She owed no special loyalty to the Jewish community, but made,
nonetheless, promises that she has now broken.
The United Nations proceeded
against a clear signal from the incoming administration and the Congress. The
Security Council knows that the measure is a major departure from anything it
has done before; it is worse than the measure the Obama administration vetoed
in 2011. It will trigger within the United Nations court systems legal warfare
that will bedevil Israel for years, exposing it to suits at, among other
venues, The Hague. The UN itself has become — to use Ambassador Power’s phrase
in a different context — the problem from Hell.
President-elect Trump gets
all this. “The United Nations,” he told Aipac during his campaign, “is not a
friend of democracy, it’s not a friend to freedom, it’s not a friend even to
the United States of America where, as you know, it has its home. And it surely
is not a friend to Israel.” The Security Council’s action today underlines the
shrewdness of Mr. Trump’s plan to nominate, in David Friedman, an ambassador to
the UN who understands the principle of Jewish settlement in the Biblical
homeland. Mr. Trump himself this afternoon said things will be different come
January 20.
What a tragedy all of this is
for the world body that, almost 70 years ago, gave birth to the Jewish state.
Israel today stands as the United Nations’ only enduring achievement. In any
event, the time has come to deal with the problem of the United Nations itself.
Mr. Trump can start this off by working with Mr. Graham and the bipartisan
coalition he promises to curb funding for the UN. He can proceed with moving
our Israel embassy to Jerusalem and enforcing American laws restricting funding
of the Palestinian Arabs. In other words, he can address the problem from Hell in
its own house.
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Obama Sells Out Israel – No Surprise
John R. Houk
© December 24, 2016
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A Problem From Hell, Indeed
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