The Israel Arab paradigm is often described as a war of religions, or conflict of 2 nations for the same land. But what is amazingly suppressed
is that it was also a vendetta. For 84 of its 90 year existence so far the Arab-Jewish war was lead by a man and his nephew. The Grand Mufti a-Husseni appointed by a British Jew to represent Arab interest in the mandate was the uncle of PLO chief and Palestine President Yasir Arafat. Its mindboggling as to why I had never heard of this. This Grand Mufti as I already mentioned in this blog orchestrated the Arab riots and revolts against the Jewish settlers from 1920 until the ElNabka or Israel's War of Independence. He feel the Jewish people were a threat to Arab Islamic culture. He was right, Islamic culture was shredding in its contact with Western culture and its myriad of philosophies democracy to socialism to fascism.Materialism and progressivism was destroying the fragile patriarchy. In Palestine where contact with Europe was minimal this posed a great threat as the Jews were legitimately there. They has a continual presence and history. So negotiating with them was out of the question.So the Grand Mufti instituting a strategy of terror that continues today based on Islam as before. He sent goons int o the strets to kill Jews, This escalated to massacres in 1929. And full war in 1936 with the British was well. The Jews were well defended by the 1930's so the Grand Mufti being a radical Islamofascist attacked the moderate Arabs killing more of his brother Muslims than Jews. This was successas the British buckled to al-Husseini's first demand. Limit immigration! And the Brits prevented Jews from Europe to escape the Nazi war machine and settle inn Israel and most wound up dead in the Holocaust. In this way the British despite fighting Nazi Germany were complicit in the death of a huge number of the 6 million lives. The Grand Mufti eager to see no more Jews in Palestine traveled to the Third Reich and became a supporter and guest of the Fuhrer. He even commanded a Muslim Gestapo. After the War he pleaded with the Arab League to prevent the binational (2 state solution) enity of Palestine from being created. The league responded with the 5 Arab Armies of Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. The Grand Mufti called for those armies to "Drive the Jews into the Sea" meaning he wanted to create a second genocide of the Jewish people in less than a decade. Suprisingly the Arabs were beaten back by the kibbutz militias. What was not taken by the Jews did not become the State of Palestine but was patitioned by Egypt and Jordan.
The Mufti died a few years later bitter at not removing the Jews. His nephew emerged in the sixties. First as leader of fatah and later as Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization a coalition of terror groups that used hostage takings, massacres, bombings and plane hijackings to force the world to pay attention. Their enemies the Israelis were already paying attention as they evolved out of cross border terrorist raiders the fedayeen; who regular kiled civilans from bases in Gaza and the The Jordanian West Bank. Arafat needed to brand the Arab refugees who before the British Mandate (1919-1948) considered themselves Syrians. They had no political or ethnic identification for 44 years. So he simply revived the Roman/European term Palestine as new name of the Arab nation in 1964.As Fatah or Palestinian leader he revived the war against the Jews. But the PLO expanded the scope from Israel to Europe. The war became the theatre of spectacles. Spectacles like the blowing up of 3 hijacked airliners in 1970, the killing of Israeli athetes in the munich Olympics, the Entebbe incident, and the capture of a cruise liner the Achille Nauro. His bgreates non violent trumph was branding Zionism as racism by a cowed UN in 1974. Its was later repealed in a more thoughtful and intrpoective era 2 decades later. But attacking Israel with rockets was never forgotten. Rockets landing in Nothern Israel in 1978 and 1982 led to Sharons invasion of Lebanon and the destruction of the PLO mini-state, That state was later replaced by todays Hezbullah's mini state. Arafat fled Beirut and was marginalized in exile in Tunis. To regain stature he sacrificed some arab demands and retuned to Palestine as President after the Oslo agreement. Unable to control Hamas and terror groups Arafat never even countered proposals by Barak and Clinton and fled to Ramallah after the 2nd intifada began, As a homesexual he contracted aids and died in 2004. You see Arafat was continuing a personal vendatta of his uncle in trying to eliminate or minimize non Muslim presence in the Muslim Umma lands.
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Hi Kreplach. Spamghod was here!
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