Rashid Khalidi quotes Lord Balfour, writing in 1919 to the anti-Zionist Lord Curzon, as an example and proof that "the Palestinians...do not warrant being consulted about their national future" ('The Neocolonial Arrogance of the Kushner Plan', June 12). Further, Khalidi points out, in contrast, that Balfour was of the opinion that "Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age-long traditions, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profounder import than the desires and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land.”
Khalidi is being a bit anachronistic. In 1919, there were no "Palestinians" per se. And if they were, they were not solely Arabs but all persons who lived in the area, of all religion and ethnicity. Formally, Palestinian nationality came about through the 1925 Palestinian Citizenship Order in Council of the British Mandate, a requirement of Article 7 of the 1922 League of Nations decision to reconstitute the Jewish people's national home through their "historical connection" to the country. In 1919, the Arabs residing in the territory referred to themselves as "Southern Syrians" and throughout the 1920s, petitioned the Mandate Commission in Geneva to have the country reunited with Syria.
Ironically, if it were not for the Jews and Zionism, there would be no "Palestine" in a geo-political sense, nor a specific Arab "Palestinian people".
To clarifty my last point: the first time "Palestine" was provided borders was under the Mandate. Previously, the Ottoman Empire had divided it up multiple ways multiple times. Districts altered and reshaped.
The first time a "Palestinian Nationality" was declared and a passport crated was under the Mandate.
And the Mandate was created for the Jews to reconstitute their historic national home in Palestine.
From a concept, interchangeable with "The Holy Land", Palestine, due to the Jewish/Zionist efforts, became a recognizable reality.
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Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz said:
The security of Israel is not assured.
Israel is the only nation in the world
whose very existence is threatened
by enemies, external and internal,
supported by a majority of the United Nations.
It is the only nation in the world whose
national movement, Zionism, has been
declared a form of racism by the United Nations.
It is the only nation in the world threatened
by genocidal war, the purpose of which
is not military victory alone, but extermination.
The genocide of Israel’s Jewish population
– a population roughly the size of the Polish Jewish
population at the beginning of World War II –
is not an unrealistic nightmare.
Nothing today prevents it other than Israel’s
military superiority over the combined
Arab armies and terrorist organizations.
If the Arab armies and terrorists were
capable of defeating Israel, destroying
its Jewish population, and “reclaiming”
ALL of current Israel, there can be
little doubt that they would try to do so.
Indeed, if any Arab leader were militarily
capable of destroying Israel, but refrained
from doing so, he would be replaced
by someone who would at least try.
…Although there are some moderate voices
within the Palestinian and Arab movements,
these voices are listened to only because Israel
is too strong today to be defeated totally.
SOURCE: Chutzpah
by Alan M. Dershowitz (chapter 7, page 247)
published in year 1991 by Little Brown & Co
ISBN: 9780316181372 * ISBN: 0316181374
Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz said:
“Too few of Israel’s critics seem to understand
the Jewish determination to avoid
another Holocaust, this one in Israel.
Too few understand why Israel cannot and
should not trust its survival to nations that stood
idly by while millions of innocent Jews were destroyed.
Too many nations seem willing to have Israel
take risks for an uncertain regional peace that
they themselves are unwilling to take for a
more important world peace.”
SOURCE: Chutzpah
by Alan M. Dershowitz (chapter 7, page 248)
published in year 1991 by Little Brown & Co
ISBN: 9780316181372 * ISBN: 0316181374
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Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz said:
“…if Israel’s military power were ever to be diminished
to the point that the combined armies of the Arab world
could defeat it, I believe there would be another Holocaust.
No Arab dictator who could defeat Israel and forebore
from doing so would survive the continuing frenzy
for jihad [Islamic holy war against non-Muslims].
And an Arab military victory over Israel – unlike
the Israeli victories over the Arabs – would not
result in a mere occupation or even detention of Israeli Jews.
It would result in a mass slaughter,
designed to rid Arab holy land of Jewish intruders.
Most Jews know this, though they rarely speak of it openly.”
SOURCE: Chutzpah by Alan M. Dershowitz
(chapter epilogue, page 352), year 1991, Little Brown & Co
ISBN: 9780316181372 * ISBN: 0316181374
But then again, most Jews did not speak openly about the Holocaust before it happened, while it was happening, or for several years after it was over.”
Professor Abraham H. Miller said:
“AIPAC and other pro-Israel organizations exist,
in part, to ensure that Israel maintains a competitive
military and technological edge so that the
Arabs don’t overrun it and commit the
second Holocaust they repeatedly promise…”
SOURCE:
Progressive calls for Jews to support Rep. Ilhan Omar
by Abraham H. Miller 2019 February 20
www.jns.org/opinion/progressive-calls-for-jews-to-support-rep-ilhan-omar/
MICROBIOGRAPHY: Abraham H. Miller
is an Emeritus Professor of Political Science,
University of Cincinnati, and a distinguished fellow with
the news and public-policy group Haym Salomon Center.
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Mr. Patrick Condell said:
“The Arabs only have to win ONCE for the world to see ANOTHER HOLOCAUST, and to stand by once again watching it happen.
That is why I support Israel, and that's why, if you have an ounce of humanity, you, too, should support Israel, whatever your political persuasion.”
MICROBIOGRAPHY:
Mr. Pat Condell is an atheist, who was born in Ireland around 1950 CE, and raised in England as a Roman Catholic, and educated in Church of England schools. He has no Jewish ancestors and no religious beliefs that might cause him to favor Jews.
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Mr. Patrick Condell said:
“It is often said, because it is true,
that if the Arabs laid down their weapons,
there would be peace; [but] if the Jews
laid down their weapons, they would be
massacred, because the Arabs
(that’s the Muslims Arabs for all you
hair-splitters out there) don’t want peace,
they want the Jews DEAD.”
SOURCE: Useful Idiots for Palestine
a YouTube video by Mr. Pat Condell, 2011 November 4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeGYAfh9A1k
complete transcript of this YouTube video:
http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/09/useful-idiots-for-palestine.html
MICROBIOGRAPHY:
Mr. Pat Condell is an atheist, who was born
in Ireland around 1950 CE, and raised in
England as a Roman Catholic, and educated
in Church of England schools.
He has no Jewish ancestors and no religious
beliefs that might cause him to favor Jews.
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Mr. Patrick Condell said:
“…if the Israelis were to lay down their weapons, they
would be massacred - men, women and children alike."
SOURCE: Why I Support Israel
A YouTube video by Pat Condell, 2014 June 18
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHC8KC5cLs8
complete transcript of this YouTube video:
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/09/why-i-support-israel-by-pat-condell.html
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Signs held by swastika-wearing Egyptian
protestors as they stormed the Israeli embassy
in September 2011 said:
“The gas chambers are ready.”
SOURCES: The Jewish Home, 2011/12/29, page 60, article:
Year in Review, published by: http://FiveTownsJewishHome.com/
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/08/islamic-spring-egyptians-protest-outside-israeli-embassy-with-swastika-sign-saying-the-gas-chambers-are-ready/
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