IT IS NECESSARY TO OPPOSE A “PALESTINIAN” ANTISEMITIC STATE

Felix Quigley — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:17:22 +0000

1. Palestine belongs to the Jews as their ancestral land, a land inhabited by Jews continuously

for thousands of years. The Jewish connection to Palestine was recognized by the “Internationl

Community” in the form of the League of Nations’ mandate over Palestine.

This statement appears repeatedly in advocacy articles written from a pro-Israeli viewpoint, an

example being quoted below. The statement is also corroborated by authoritative historians, but these

works are not available on the web.

On the other hand, it is easy to establish and document definitively that the “international community”

has accepted the Jewish historical claim to Palestine, and consequently the claim of the Jewish people

to a national home in Palestine. To substantiate this statement, I quote from the preamble to the text

of the League of Nations Mandate:

“Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have also agreed that the Mandatory

should be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally

made on November 2nd, 1917, by the Government of His Britannic Majesty,

and adopted by the said Powers, in favour of the establishment in

Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly

understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and

religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the

rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country ; and

Whereas

recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of

the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting

their national home in that country…”

(The text quoted above may be found on many web sites; we selected to quote from the site of

Yale

Law School

Among the parties present at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, were Felix Frankfurter and Chaim

Weizmann on behalf of the Zionist movement, and the Emir Feisal on behalf of the Hedjaz (now

Saudi Arabia). In the course of their meetings, Feisal wrote a letter addressed to Frankfurter and

dated 3 March, 1919. The letter, which may be found at

http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~samuel/feisal2.html

stated:

We Arabs, especially the educated among us look with the deepest sympathy

on the Zionist movement. Our deputation here in Paris is fully acquainted

with the proposals submitted yesterday by the Zionist Organisation to

Peace Conference, and we regard them as moderate proper. We will do our

best, in so far as we are concerned, to help them through:

we will wish

the Jews a most hearty welcome home.

Unless Feisal himself recognized the Jewish historical claim to Palestine, there would be no meaning

to the sentence, “we will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home”. Hence it is clear that the

Jewish claim to Palestine was already well established even among the Arabs, when the League of

Nations granted the British a mandate over Palestine on July 24, 1922.

As an example of the many web sites which deal with the Jewish connection to Palestine I quote from

http://www.rosenblit.com/Palestine.htm

In 135 CE, after having long-become a province of the Roman Empire,

Judea’s third and last revolt against Rome was crushed by Emperor Hadrian;

but Rome’s army also suffered devastating losses, including the complete

annihilation of its illustrious XXII Legion. In furtherance of Rome’s

costly victory, Hadrian — in a blatant propaganda effort to delegitimize

further national Jewish claims to the Land — renamed the province

Palestina (Palestine) after the Philistines, a long-extinct Aegean people

who had disappeared from History approximately a millennium earlier.

However, although the province had been converted from Judea (– Land of

the Jews –) into Palestina (– Land of the Philistines –), it continued

to be populated by Jews, together with substantial minority populations of

Christians and Samaritans, but hardly any Arabs, at least until the great

Arab invasion of 638 CE, as a result of which, 73 years later, Byzantium’s

Christian basilica known as the Church of Saint Mary of Justinian, which

then sat atop Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, was remade into Islam’s Al-Aksa

mosque. But even under the rule of the Arab and all subsequently

superseding empires, the Jewish people nevertheless maintained a

continuous national presence in “Palestine” — right up until the

resurrection therein of the Jewish nation-state of Israel in 1948 CE.”

JEWISH HISTORY

IT IS NECESSARY TO OPPOSE A “PALESTINIAN” ANTISEMITIC STATE