So, Class\u2026When Does 1 + 1 = 3 ?
\nby Gerald A. Honigman <\/p>\n
Answer\u2026 <\/p>\n
When the subject is \u201cPalestine,\u201d and the Arabs and their assorted mouthpieces and rah rah squads are doing the counting. <\/p>\n
After the centuries old Ottoman Turkish Empire was dismantled after World War I, many different long suppressed peoples had visions of freedom, self determination, and independence in the new age of nationalism emerging in the region. Diplomats like America\u2019s President Woodrow Wilson, Great Britain\u2019s Sir Mark Sykes, and others encouraged this with their \u201cFourteen Points\u201d and statements such as \u201cArabia for the Arabians, Judea for the Jews, Armenia for the Armenians, Kurdistan for the Kurds,\u201d etc. and so forth. <\/p>\n
There was just one problem with this, however\u2013and we are living with the tragic consequences of it to this very day\u2026 <\/p>\n
From the mid-7th until the mid-13th centuries of the Common Era, much of the region had been conquered by Arabs who had burst out of the Arabian Peninsula, waging murderous jihad in all directions in the name of both Arabism and the Dar ul-Islam. Countless millions of native, non-Arab peoples were slaughtered, enslaved, forcibly Arabized, converted, and\/or subjugated in other ways in the process\u2013going onto this very day. That\u2019s how Arabs got to the native, non-Semitic Copts\u2019 Egypt, Aryan Iran, Amazigh (\u201cBerber\u201d) North Africa, native Semitic\u2013but non-Arab\u2013Lebanon, Syrian and Iraqi Kurdistan, black African Sudan (and beyond), Judea\/Syria Palestina\u2013the Roman\/Byzantine-conquered land of the Jews, the Indian sub-continent, etc. and so forth\u2026Keep in mind that these are the same dudes complaining about an allegedly expansionist Israel. <\/p>\n
Based on these earlier Arab imperial, colonial conquests, Arabs then declared that they\u2013and only they\u2013were entitled to any political rights in \u201ctheir\u201d region\u2026purely Arab patrimony, in their own words. In an example that I like to use, this excerpt from the constitution of the Syrian Arab Ba\u2019th Party sums this mindset up nicely\u2026 <\/p>\n
“The Arab fatherland belongs to the Arabs. They alone have the right to direct its destinies\u2026. The Arab fatherland is that part of the globe inhabited by the Arab nation that stretches from the Taurus Mountains, the Pacht-i-Kouh Mountains, the Gulf of Basra, the Arab Ocean, the Ethiopian Mountains, the Sahara, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Mediterranean Sea.”<\/p>\n
Please keep this all in mind as we get down to the specifics\u2026 <\/p>\n
When the Allies finished off the Ottoman Turkish Empire after World War I, much of the land was divided up into Mandates as a prelude to later independence. For the sake of this analysis, we will focus on the Brits. <\/p>\n
Having already been in Egypt since the 19th century, London added both the Mandate of Mesopotamia and the Mandate of Palestine to its regional acquisitions. <\/p>\n
Having promised the Kurds independence in at least part of Mesopotamia, after receiving a favorable decision regarding the oil-rich Kurdish north from the League of Nations in 1925, the Brits abandoned their promises to the Kurds and allied themselves solely with Arab nationalist interests. A united, Arab-ruled Iraq arose instead. There would be no partitions of the Mandate to address anyone else\u2019s rights except Arabs\u2013even though Kurds (and others) predated them in the land by millennia. Keep this in mind as we advance to a discussion of the Brits\u2019 other Mandate. <\/p>\n
To this date, over thirty-five million Kurds in the region remain stateless as a result. And while Arabs can go to the United Nations demanding their 22nd state (as they did on September 23rd), no one makes such demands for a roadmap for Kurdistan. My doctoral research on this topic, by the way, has been listed on Paris\u2019s acclaimed Institut d\u2019Etudes Politique\u2013Sciences-Po\u2019s\u2013recommended reference list since the early 1980s. <\/p>\n
And that brings us to our math problem of the day\u2026 When does 1 + 1 = 3 ? <\/p>\n
Several years prior to the time that the Brits would shaft the Kurds in the Mandate of Mesopotamia, they were backtracking big time with the Jews in the Mandate of Palestine as well. <\/p>\n
Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill convened the strategic Cairo Conference in 1921. As a result, and in the aftermath of its various twists and turns, among other things, in 1922 Arab nationalism was awarded all of the Mandate of Palestine east of the Jordan River\u2026almost 80% of the total area. King Abdullah called this \u201can act of Allah\u201d in his memoirs (quoted in my own book). The Brits\u2019 East Bank representative, Sir Alec Kirkbride, had much to say about this in his book, A Crackle Of Thorns. <\/p>\n
Now, as there was competition between various national interests in Mesopotamia, this was going on in Palestine as well. The two rivals were Arabs and Jews. <\/p>\n
Before we go any further, allow me to sidetrack a bit\u2026 <\/p>\n
The name \u201cPalestine\u201d was bestowed on Iudea (Judea) after the Jews took on the Soviet Union of its day\u2013the Roman Empire\u2013for their freedom and independence. After they wiped the entire 22nd Roman Legion (according to the Romans\u2019 own accounts) in the second major revolt, the emperor, Hadrian, became so enraged that, after his final defeat of the Bar Kochba revolt, he renamed the land itself after the Jews\u2019 well-known historic enemies, the Philistines. The latter were not only not Arabs, they were not even Semites. They were the \u201cSea People\u201d of Egyptian records, David and Goliath fame, and such whose origins were the islands off of Crete. <\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a favorite quote I like to use from the era of the first revolt written by one of the leading Roman historians, Tacitus\u2026 <\/p>\n
“It inflamed Vespasian\u2019s ire that the Jews were the only nation which had not yet submitted\u2026Titus was appointed by his father (Vespasian) to complete the subjugation of Judaea\u2026he commanded three legions in Judaea itself\u2026To these he added the twelfth from Syria and the third and twenty-second from Alexandria\u2026amongst his allies were a band of Arabs, formidable in themselves and harboring towards the Jews the bitter animosity usually subsisting between neighboring nations ( Vol. II, Book V,The Works of Tacitus).” <\/p>\n
Oh yes, one more thing\u2026There never ever ever was an Arab kingdom, nation, emirate, state, etc. of \u201cPalestine.\u201d When Arabs ruled it, they did so out of Damascus or Baghdad as part of their imperial Caliphal conquests and prizes. <\/p>\n
Okay\u2013back to math\u2026 <\/p>\n
Returning to the events of 1922, right from the get-go, one of the two main competitors in modern Palestine\u2013the Arabs\u2013was thus awarded with the lions\u2019 share of the territory. <\/p>\n
Arabs at the time gave their loyalty to where Arabs usually do\u2013family, clan, tribe, and so forth. Those who started to think in bigger terms in the age of nationalism were either advocates of a \u201cGreater Syria\u201d plan for Arab unification or Pan Arabism on an even larger scale. The one thing they most certainly were not was \u201cPalestinian.\u201d Indeed, the folks in the Mandate who were labeled and who called themselves that were the Jews. <\/p>\n
So, in a discussion of the division of rights between the Mandate\u2019s two nationalist camps, we had Jews on the one side and Arabs on the other, and observers such as Kirkbride above and others saw the separation of Transjordan (eastern Palestine)in precisely these terms. <\/p>\n
The problem we face today stems from the fact that Arabs now demand that a fictitious 3rd party also be entered into this apportionment\u2026the \u201cPalestinians.\u201d Before I make any further comments on this, I\u2019ll let one of those \u201cPalestinians\u201d himself do the talking. Please listen carefully to PLO executive committee member Zuheir Mohsen, on March 31, 1977, in the Dutch newspaper Trouw\u2026 <\/p>\n
“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\u2026 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 \u2018Palestinian people\u2019 to oppose Zionism\u2026”<\/p>\n
Comprenden mis amigos? Get the picture? <\/p>\n
Thus, after also making off with almost 80% of the entire territory of the original 1920 Mandate, Arab nationalism\u2013in another one of its many different stripes\u2013demands a second share, resulting in two for Arabs and one for Jews. <\/p>\n
Keep in mind that Arabs were indeed offered this second share over the decades in additional proposed partitions which would have netted them almost 90% of the total area. They rejected everything which would have granted Jews anything\u2013regardless of how small\u2026and for the same reason they call the potential creation of Kurdistan the birth of \u201canother Israel.\u201d In Arab eyes, they and only they have any rights in the region\u2026 <\/p>\n
Regardless of the internal competition going on between the Arabs\u2019 various groups and sub-groups, they have no right denying other peoples their own rights because of all of their own subdivisions and internal differences\u2026yet that\u2019s exactly what they do\u2013and, again, not only to Jews\u2026not by a long shot. <\/p>\n
Think about this for another moment\u2026 <\/p>\n
There are Jews in Israel from numerous different countries (including those whose families have lived there since the Roman conquest). Do they get to demand multiple states instead of just one in Israel because of this? <\/p>\n
Those Kurds mentioned above live and predate Arabs and Turks in the region by millennia. Do they get to have states in Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and so forth as a result of the same types of claims Arabs use in their Palestine games? <\/p>\n
How about some thirty-five million subjugated Imazighen\/Berbers native to North Africa, who predated and fought the Arab conquest for centuries? And the list does not stop here\u2026 <\/p>\n
No, even though we use Arabic numerals, Arabs do not have the right to change this basic mathematical truth\u2026 <\/p>\n
1 + 1 = 2 \u2026not 3\u2026especially since Arabs demand that their additional, undeserved state replace Israel, not live peacefully alongside it. Check out Mahmoud Abbas\u2019s \u201cmoderate\u201d Palestinian Authority emblems and maps if you doubt this. <\/p>\n
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