Palestinians Before They Knew They Were Palestinians 1920-1948

Remember the Palestinians before their fear and paranoia of all things Western as well Jewish made them tools of the Arab League and later The Islamic Republic of Iran.

When the Jews/Zionists arrived in 1878 they were small in number. They were scattered and they bought the most undesirable plots of land from Arab and Turkish effendis or landlords. The Muslim Arabs eventually began to fear the disappearance of their religion and culture. The extreme freedoms and incredible materialism were not welcomed by many Arabs. They feared and perhaps rightly so that unless Islam was enforced more strictly droves of Arabs would abandon Islam. Ever since the Middle Ages Arabia, Lebanon and Syria (upper Syria) , Iraq (called Mesopotamia by the West), and Lower Syria(Called Palestine by the West) , were in suspended animation remaining in the 13th century by the non-progressive Ottoman (Turkish) Empire or the Grand Porte or the Caliphate. When the British defeated the Ottoman forces in 1917 Palestine became a mandate of the British Empre (really a colony, the British loved colonies). This tremendously increased the fear of Muslim Arabs in exposure of their stagnant culture to Western liberated notions. The Caliph in Constantinople was no longer in charge! Europeans were!! So the onslaught of alien yet enticing European values terrified all Arabs there. All other Arab States in North Africa were colonized already and had the roughly the same struggles. That set the stage for reaction.

Te Grand Mufti al-Husseini of Jerusalem made the first aggressive move as Arabs are wont to do, in 1920 by attacking Jews, rioting and massacring Jews. This continued into 1921. Riots broke out in 1929 that massacred many Jews of Hebron so that they left and didn’t return until after the Six Day War victory secured Hebron once again. That is why that city/town is so important to the Jewish Settler movement.

The Grand Mufti next project was most ambitious. Immigration from of persecuted and oppressed Jews from Nazi Germany rove the immigration levels up. The Arabs were far more xenophobic that charitable. They demanded immigration cease and 3 years of massacres and riots began anew. The Grand Mufti called for all Arabs to attack Jews. When many Arabs refused to do so; his forces attacked the moderated. This action has been repeated up to this day. That’s why moderates in Palestine and across the Arab world barely utter a sound at wonton attacks by radicals Islamists to this day.

From 1936 to 1939 510 Jews were killed. It was a lower number than expected as by then Jews had set up self defense militias in kibbutzim and cities. But the Arab death count was much greater. It was ARAB on ARAB violence. They also attacked the British this time. The many British were anti-semitic (towards Jews) as was the ancient prejudice still was not dismissed by science and liberalism completely. The also admired the "knights" of the desert- The Arab as written about by Lawrence of Arabia. By 1939 the British issued a White Paper restricting and later ending all immigration by Jews from Germany and later German occupied Europe. This gave the British the marvelous opportunity of the Brits becoming partners in the genocide of 6 million Jews with Nazi Germany. The Jews were refused admittance in most countries in such LARGE numbers. Still the Jews tried many deals to secure release of doomed European Jews going well in World War 2. The British arefused wartime releases as well. So then began the smuggling-Jews-to-save-lives operation by Zionist organizations and Palestinian Jews

What did the Grand Mufti al-Husseini do when World War 2 began? His intense hated and fear of Jews made him write off his fear of Europeans so he joined the Nazi Government as a visiting dignitary and later as a ss commander. Frequently he would call for the extermination of the Jews. He met with Hitler and they admired bloodthirstiness. in each other.

After the War al-Husseini restarted the war against the Jews minus the 6 million of course.

Attacks began AGAIN in 1946 and were in full war mode by 1947. Rich Arabs (moderate) fearing more attacks by the Grand Mufti as well as the Jews all left.

The United Nations set a Bi-National state in Resolution 181. This 2 state solution probably would have resembled the Bi-National Federation in Bosnia today if the Arabs accepted it. They would not.

Instead they called for the liquidation of the Jewish part. Seeing the Jews would NOW set up an independent state, the Grand Mufti asked the Arab League to "drive the Jews into the sea" . Iraq, Lebanon. Syria, Egypt, TransJordan, and the Arab Palestinians. rallied to the death cause. Rumors, fears and warnings impelled most Arab Palestinians to leave the theatre of war.

To the shock of the world especially the Arabs the Hagannah, (really bunch of militias) defeated all 5 Arab Armies and set up the current Jewish state. The intense hatred and xenophobia of the Jews brought into concrete reality the most feared thing the Grand Mufti al-Husseini he could imagine a Jewish country in Muslim Umma lands not under any Islamic dhimmi (2nd class caste rules of the Muslim era).

Jews now could look into the eyes of Muslim Arabs as equals. as warriors in what Muslims deemed was their holy sacred part of the Planet Earth!!!!

It wasn’t til much later that the Arab refugees of war were given an identity and therefore country called Palestine. It was a great strategy by Yasir Arafat 1964.They took the name from the British who like Europeans use the latin word invented by the Romans upon the destruction of Judea in the 1st century. The Brits need it to differentiate it from Syria which became French Syria and Lebanon. Today the Palestinians insist there was always an Arab nation of Palestine. They have even invented a backstory of a prosperous peaceful country. Of course the major telling point to the contrary is the word Palestine being of Latin origin. So when Palestinians pronounce it they say Filistine or Falestine as P is not in the Arab language.