Beautiful post, thanks for sharing
Sandy

But let’s start with World War I — the warring parties Germany, Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Ottoman Empire versus rest of world. We all know that Germany and Austro-Hungary lost but don’t realize the impact of Ottoman Empire being a loser. The most prominent Muslim at the time was Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al Houseini. He went around formenting resistance to the Brits and French and starting various resistance groups, notably the Ba’ath Party (Saddam Hussein — ring any bells?).

In any event, Haj Amin roamed around causing trouble until WWII. But the Ottoman Empire was still broken up into various countries based on geography. Territory in the Middle East is based on tribal/clan ownership — not a pencil line demarking spheres of European influence.

Who were the warring parties in WWII? Germany, Italy, Japan versus rest of world to include France and the UK who had substantial holdings in MIddle East. The Middle East more or less allied itself with Germany who promised to remove the Brits/French and let the Arabs (Muslims) do what they wanted (create smaller/larger nations). Haj Amin spent most of WWII in Berlin advising Hitler and the Nazis on how to find Jews and how to speed up the extermination process. He even went so far as to forming a Muslim Brigade in what would be Yugoslavia to hunt Jews.

WWII ended with Haj Amin on the run as a war criminal. He went around the Middle East still formenting trouble. The Brits either didn’t want to catch him or didn’t try hard enough.

He ended up in Cairo where he adopted his nephew, Mohammed Abdel-Raouf al-Husseini (otherwise known as Yassir Arafat who learned anti-semitism from his uncle).

When the Israelis agreed to a two-state plan in 1947, the Arabs rejected it. It was actually a multi-state plan since Israeli territory was to be non-contiguous. When the Brit Mandate expired and Israel declared the creation of the State of Israel, the Mufti of Jerusalem ordered all Muslims out of the territory (statless people, war refugees, Palestinians — same thing). Muslims were not to become Israeli citizens, not to vote in Israeli elections, not pay taxes, etc.

After the war, the Israelis asked the ’stateless’ to come back. They had to take Israeli citizenship not the Jewish religion and continue to work, create goods, farm the land, live in the cities/towns/villages and rebuild what had been destroyed due to war — same as the Israelis.

They chose to remain outside Israel and in the camps. Israel did not take over the abandoned property but held it in trust, earning interest. When a displaced person returns as long as he takes Israeli citizenship, he/she gets the property (farm, cottage industry, whatever) plus interest. After so many years, and changing names and aliases, can any displaced person legally claim any property? That’s a matter for the courts to decide. But to ‘claim’ that Israelis stole the property is absurd — for the most part, they sold it to the Jews prior to WWII and prior to 1948. The Jews/Israelis had hard currency and the Arabs/Muslims wanted/needed hard currency. The Israelis bought scrub land and turned it into irrigated farmland. The formerly unused land now converted to productive land and purchased by the Israelis is what the stateless people want to steal — something for nothing.

Many Muslims left their homes, farms, cottage industries. The Muslim/Arab armies also lost the Arab-Israeli War of 1948. They also refused to return home. Egypt would not accept their fellow Arab/Muslims; neither would Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, or any other country. So the refugees became stateless, living in camps run by the UN who pays them $500 per family per month.

On Monday the UNWRA (UN War Refugee Agency) visits Camp A and pay Abdul $500, On Tuesday they visit Camp B and pay Akbar $500 (who is really Abdul but in different garments — I witnessed this at 3 camps but they refuse to have either photo id for UN relief payments or fingerprint id).

The money goes to support the family (very little) and Hamas, Al-Fatah, and PLO, and NFLP. Manhood is defined by how many weapons you own and how many Israelis you kill not by how well you take care of your family or are a father, husband, brother.

The PLO answered this by saying that anyone who martyrs himself/herself goes to Paradise and gets $6000 for the family on earth.

They are not Palestinians — that word was invented by the Romans.

They are either Canaanites or Philistins or Phoenicians.

In the movie ‘The Kingdom’ — two groups of people gave the same advice — we will kill them all (Jews/Westerners or Muslims). That advice echos a command given to Joshua that when he entered the Promised Land, he was to kill all the inhabitants since they had defiled the land and were an abomination in the sight of God.

As for what the Nazis and Russians and Poles and ______ (fill in the blank) did with their pogroms and policies of extermination or expulsion (Spain 1492– England 1290– France 1182, 1306 and 1394 — Germany 1614, massacre of Jews in the UK 1190, masacre of Jews in Germany 1298, Italy creates the ghetto in 1516, expulsion from papal states in 1569 by Pope Pius V, massacre in Poland 1768, massacre in Algeria 1805, 1919 pogroms in Hungary, Prague 1952, expelled from Egypt 1956, 1968 last remaining Jews from Poland, their will be justice.

Jesus (Yeshua) was a Jew, was probably married as was the custom for 12, 13 year olds at the time, and would probably be surprised to see what people have done now in His name.

Recall or know that Adolf Hitler was a professed Catholic (non-practicing I would imagine).

Now they are selling garden gnomes giving a Nazi salute in Nuremburg.

What a world!