RUTHFULLY YOURS

Let’s start with opening the following link and taking a good look at the name on the missiles in the picture: https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/hamas-launches-missiles-towards-the-sea-in-warning-to-israel-638088. Please note that those fired recently were most likely advanced versions of these older Qassams.

In the article, Hamas complains about being blockaded–but never mentions (of course) why that’s so.

Ships from Iran have repeatedly been intercepted carrying advanced missiles, mortars, and other weaponry to Hamas and Islamic Jihad to attack Israel and kill Jews from Gaza with. This does not include the hundreds of thousands of more advanced weapons that Iran has supplied to Hizbullah in Lebanon with, just across Israel’s northern border.

That’s not exactly what Israel had in mind when it unilaterally uprooted thousands of Jews–who also have history in Gaza–in 2005 for the sake of peace…land that has been used since the days of the Pharaohs to attack Israel from.

Ever since Israel withdrew from Gaza in August 2005, adjacent towns in Israel proper have come under repeated attack. Qassam/Kassam rockets have been frequently fired into communities such as Sderot and Ashkelon, deliberately aimed at terrorizing civilians. Highly destructive incendiary kites and balloons—also aiming to kill Jews, slaughter domestic animals and wildlife, property, and burn land–have been added to that mix.

While Israel tries its best to carefully target those responsible for such attacks, the Arab targets of choice are usually the most innocent.

Not only is greater shock value derived from this, the reality is that, in Arab eyes, there are no Jewish innocents.  Now, when choosing this effective weapon of terror, Hamas (which, like still too many other Arabs, including Israel’s phony “peace” partners in Mahmoud Abbas and his latter day Arafatians-in-Suits of Fatah and the PLO/PA, denies Israel’s right to exist with or without the disputed territories) gave careful thought to the name that such an important weapon should go by.

Since the “military wing” of Hamas (many of the folks that actually blow up buses, teen night clubs, pizzerias and such) was named after Sheikh Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, it made sense to name this weapon after him as well.

Now, surely such a man must have had some great credentials in the “Palestinian” Arab movement, don’t you think?
Of course.

Izzy made his name by butchering and disemboweling “Zionist invaders” during the early Mandatory period after World War I.  So, what else do we know about this legendary leader of the “Palestinians?” Well, for starters, hold on to your seats….

Hamas’ legendary hero–like most other “native Palestinians”–was born elsewhere. In his case, Latakia, Syria.

In just one three-month period alone, the League of Nations Permanent Mandates Commission documented scores of thousands of other Syrian Arabs pouring into the British Mandate of Palestine after World War I. Like numerous other Arabs moving in from elsewhere in the region, they came to take advantage of the economic boom going on because of the influx of Jewish capital.

And for every Arab newcomer–i.e., Arab settler–who was documented, many more slipped in under cover of darkness and were never recorded. Add to this the fact that, for a number of reasons, the Brits were more concerned about entering Jews than entering Arabs. Despite this, lots of valid documentation and other evidence exist showing that, like the murderous Sheikh Izzy, most “Palestinian” Arabs were no more native than most of the returning, forcibly exiled, Diaspora Jews.

Check this out…

So many Arabs were recent arrivals into the Mandate that when UNRWA was created to deal with the Arab refugee situation, created as a result of the invasion by a half-dozen Arab states of a reborn Israel in 1948, it adjusted the definition of “refugee” from the prior meaning — persons normally and traditionally resident — to those who lived in the Mandate for a minimum of only two years prior to 1948. Also keep in mind that for every Arab who was forced to flee the fighting that the Arabs started in their attempt to nip a nascent Israel in the bud, a Jewish refugee was forced to flee Arab lands — but with no UNRWA set up to help them.

Indeed, scores of thousands of Jews fled the same Syria that Izzy immigrated to Palestine from. Greater New York City has tens of thousands of these Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews. Many others moved to Israel and elsewhere. In Israel, they number more than half of Israel’s Jewish population–descendants of the other half of the Arab-Israeli refugee situation, created by the attack by a half dozen Arab states immediately upon Israel’s rebirth in 1948,  that rarely gets noticed.

But, while Arabs see it as their natural right to settle anywhere in the Dar ul-Islam and what they claim as purely Arab patrimony (despite the fact that scores of millions of non-Arabs also live in the area and have been conquered and forcibly Arabized by them), when Jews moved into their sole, resurrected state (as opposed to some two dozen for Arabs), Arabs declared this to be a Nakba, the Catastrophe.

Hundreds of millions of Hindus and Muslims could arrive at a less-than-perfect modus vivendi in the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent, at virtually the same moment Arabs were rejecting a similar offer over what was left of the Palestine Mandate after Arabs had already been awarded the lion’s share in 1922 with the separation of Transjordan—almost 80% of the original 1920 Mandate’s area.

The mere thought of anyone else but Arabs gaining a mere sliver of the very same political or even human rights that Arabs demand for themselves (be they Kurds, Imazighen/”Berbers,” black Africans in the Sudan and elsewhere, Assyrians, Copts, native kilab yahud {Jew dogs}, or whoever) was out of the question.

Indeed, the conflict we have between Arab and Jew (and others as well) in the region today is largely all about that above Arab mindset.

So, the next time you hear about Qassams being fired at Israel, or Hamas’s “militant wing,” the Izz ad-dine al-Qassam Brigade, please consider the irony here.

Additionally, regarding Sheikh Izzy and most of his other native Palestinians, please carefully review what follows from a prominent PLO executive committee member, Zuheir Mohsen, on March 31, 1977, in the Dutch newspaper Trouw:

“The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese… Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism…”

Yet still, are there not different Arab groups within that greater Arab family?

Sure there are…just like there are many different sub-groups within the Jewish or Kurdish or Amazigh/”Berber” families of nations.

But the possession of multiple sub-groups does not give Arabs the right to deny any and all other peoples their own share of justice in the region. Yet, this has always been the Arab “name game” plan.

1 + 1 = 2… not 3.

Arab nationalism is entitled to one share of the Palestine pie–not two. Arabs must decide among themselves how they want to share rule over their one part of “Palestine.”

Whether this translates into a merger of parts of Judea and Samaria with Jordan (the most sensible, yet unlikely, solution), or whether a tiny, second Arab state is created in Gaza, Judea, and Samaria after Israel gets the absolutely essential compromise in the territories promised by the final draft of UNSC Resolution 242, the choice must not leave the sole state of the Jews as vulnerable as in the days prior to the 1967 war when Israel was a mere 9-15-mile wide rump state, sardine can of a nation.

If Arab nationalism gets awarded an additional share (a la the Trump Plan, etc.), then how are other subjugated, murdered,  etc. non-Arab peoples in the region, like 40 million truly stateless Kurds, 35 million Berbers, and so forth, to be told that they must remain forever stateless–at both Arabs’ and Turks’ mercy?

One last thing (for now)…

Despite the French attempt to falsify the death certificate regarding his place of birth, Yasser Arafat himself was born in Cairo, as existing documentation and records clearly show. And tens of thousands of other Egyptian Arabs had preceded his own migration and settlement in Palestine just a bit earlier in the wake of Muhammad Ali and son Ibrahim Pasha’s military excursions in the latter 19th century….more ancestors of today’s “native Palestinians.”