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Khalaf Al Habtoor
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“
There is a clear Talmudic prohibition of
Jews over the
Holy
Land
,
until their sins have been expiated in
exile. Violation of the terms of Jewish
Exile has caused much suffering for all
parties in the
Middle
East
.
It is high time to dismantle the
Israeli
State
.
It is a blemish on the Jewish people. All
mankind is told by the States
representatives, that
Israel
represents Jewry. This is utter nonsense.
Heretics cannot represent the Torah
people. Those guilty of massive cruelty
towards the Palestinians cannot represent
a merciful people.”
Rabbi
Yisroel Dovid Weiss
America
, I have a
dream. I dream that after nearly a century
of supporting the Zionists aim of a
homeland in
Palestine
for Jews, you
have woken up to the fact that you have
been deceived. You have realised that the
state you call
Israel
has nothing to
do with Judaism; it is just a construct of
a racist philosophy called Zionism that
came into being only a century ago. It is
this racist movement that conquered, by
deceit and force of arms, a part of the
Middle East
called
Palestine
that has been
peopled by Arabs for most of its recorded
history. In my dream, you, the American
people ask these conquerors to leave and
return to their lands from whence they
came. So that at long last, all the people
of Palestine, forced from their homes
since 1948 can return to their homeland
and claim what is legally theirs - their
country, their homes, their fields, their
olive groves and their water.
Yes, such a proposal does sound
far-fetched to most people who do not
understand the history of
Palestine
. However,
America
, if you were
truly seeking peace in the
Middle East
, then this
would be the best solution – send the
Jews home. Yes, many have been born in
Israel since its establishment in 1948,
but just as Israel does with Jews born
elsewhere in the world, the United Nations
could draw up a charter that would allow
every Jew to be recognised as a citizen of
his, his parents, or grandparent’s
country of origin, giving him or her the
right of return with the same rights as
those born there.
If this seems a little outlandish, just
consider for a moment the demographic
composition and origins of most Jews
living in
Palestine
.
Whilst there had been a steady trickle of
Jewish settlers since the first years of
the 20th century, according to
Israel
’s Ministry of
Information, in 1922 there were still only
84,000 Jews in
Palestine
, against
600,000 Muslims, and 73,000 Christian
Arabs, with the overwhelming majority of
Muslims and Christians being born in
Palestine
. Twenty-four
years later, the figures had altered
dramatically. Just after the Second World
War and just before the creation of
Israel
by UN mandate,
the figures stood at 554,000 Jews, 1,061
Muslims and 135,550 Christian Arabs.
While the increase in both, Muslim and
Christian populations, is fairly normal
ratio of growth, the explosion of the
Jewish population can only be explained by
the influx of ever increasing numbers of
emigrants, arriving in the country (which
in fact was/is the case). After the
creation of
Israel
in 1948, most
Arabs, Muslims and Christians, fled their
homes in fear for their lives. The
government of
Israel
, as policy,
actively encouraged Jewish communities in
less developed countries like
Ethiopia
,
Tunisia
,
Yemen
and other
states in
North Africa
and the
Middle East
, to leave their
ancestral homes and settle in the new
State of Israel.
The population statistics reflect this. By
1967, eighty-five percent of the
population were Jewish. There were now
2,383,600 of them, while the rest of the
population, Christian and Muslims, made up
fifteen percent, with 390,300. However, in
1967 there were another 954,00 Muslims and
Christian Arabs living in displaced
persons camps in the
West Bank
and
Gaza
. It was not
until 1980 that the number of Israelis
born in
Israel
(55%) exceeded
those that arrived by emigration. Even in
1996, the last date that we have figures
for, the number of Israeli’s born in the
country totaled only 61%. From just these
numbers, it can clearly be seen that since
it establishment in 1948, most of the
population of
Israel
has comprised
emigrants from other lands. It is clear
too, just from the statistical data on
population supplied by
Israel
that the Jews
have no legal right through birth or
generational ownership, to land and
property in
Palestine
. They have
stolen most of it from
Palestine
’s indigenous
population, the Palestinians. So it seems
to me that rather than saying that
Israel
is an
‘established fact’, we should rather
ask, ‘how can we best give
Palestine
back to its
rightful owners’. The best and most
obvious choice would be to peacefully
repatriate all Jews to their lands of
origin.
Speaking
of origin, here is another telling point
in favour of returning Jewish Israelis to
the lands they left to settle in
Palestine
, and eventually
establish a state there, and that point is
that the major part of modern Jewry is not
even of Semitic origin; it is Turkic /
Caucasian. This surprising fact is not
much talked about, and is little known. In
fact, Israel ridicules it and does all it
can to suppress knowledge of the fact, as
it totally negates its claim to Palestine,
based on having lived in Palestine nearly
3,000 years ago.
As we know, the population of
Israel
is made up of
two distinct groups called the Sephardim
and the Ashkenzim.
The Sephardim are descendents of the Jews
who lived in
Spain
until their
expulsion with the Muslims, at the end of
the 15th century, and later settled along
the countries bordering the
Mediterranean
. In the
1960’s, the Sephardim numbered 500,000,
while the Ashkenzim, in the same period,
numbered around 11million. It can clearly
be seen that the word ‘Ashkenzim’ is
almost synonymous with the word Jew.
Now
the Ashkenzim are descendents of a people
known as the Khazars, who, from the
seventh to the eleventh century, ruled an
empire extending from the
Black Sea
to the Caspian
and from the
Caucasus
to the
Volga
.
In 740AD, the King of Khazria, wishing to
maintain the political and ideological
independence of his empire, and avoid
absorption by either of his powerful
neighbours, the Christian Eastern Roman
Empire, or the Muslim Caliphate in
Baghdad, ordered all his subjects to
convert to Judaism and did so himself.
From 740AD until its fall in 1016, it was
in effect a Jewish State. After the
destruction of the Khazar Empire, the
Jewish Khazars migrated into other regions
of
Eastern Europe
, mainly
Russia
,
Poland
and
Germany
. Until the 20th
century these were the countries with the
largest concentration of Jews in the
world. It is also well documented that the
Jewish population of
Hungary
was of Khazar
decent. This population migrated westward
and into
America
, as state
sponsored anti-Semitism spread in
Eastern Europe
.
It
was these Jews that became known as the
Ashkenzim, and who now make up the
majority in
Israel
.
As the Israeli scholar of Medieval Jewish
History, A. N Poliak states in Arthur
Koestler’s Book ‘The Thirteenth Tribe,
“The descendants of the Khazar Jews,
those who stayed where they were (in
Khazria) and those who emigrated to the
other countries like the United States,
and those that went to Israel, constitute
the largest majority of world Jewry.”
So,
since
America
’s support by
its Christian population is founded on its
belief that God bequeathed the territory
to a biblical “tribe” of Semitic
Middle Eastern origin, it can clearly be
seen that most Jews living today in
Israel
are neither
hereditary natives from the “
Holy Land
”, nor are any
other Eastern Semitic people.
Arthur
Koestler, the noted author and
intellectual, himself an Hungarian born
Jew, noted, “ The story of the Khazar
Empire begins to look like the most cruel
hoax history has ever perpetuated.” I
feel that the people of
Palestine
, imprisoned and
brutalised by the
Zionist
State
of
Israel
, would be the
first to agree with him.
So
in all justice, it is not unreasonable to
ask these people to leave the
land
of
Palestine
and return to
their own homes and let the rightful
owners return to theirs.
How can this be achieved, I hear you ask?
Well, I believe that
America
,
Britain
and France, all
who have done much to harm this tiny land
and its neighbours since the beginning of
the 20th century, should set up a fund
specifically for the purpose of
repatriating the Jews of Israel to the
countries of their origin. They must also
stop funding and supporting these
occupiers, and indicate to all Israeli
Jews that they will actively support the
Palestinians in the reoccupation of their
homeland.
The fund would have to be enormous,
probably in trillions rather than in
billions of dollars. It should ensure that
every Israeli Jew who is to return to his
country of origin is able to have a home
and a guaranteed livelihood. They would be
granted full citizenship, full civil
rights and be protected under local and
international human rights laws.
Taking these actions I believe, would be
the best way to bring peace and prosperity
to the entire
Middle East
, and
re-establish
America
as the defender
of true democratic freedom and the
upholder and protector of human right,
that it strives to be.
America
, you want to
stop terrorism and prevent harm coming to
your people, this is exactly what the
Palestinians seek as well. If you are
prepared to listen to them, and not to
their oppressors, and be prepared to act
to support them, then you will be admired
not feared and resented. This would ensure
that terrorism will never again gain a
hold over the minds of those oppressed,
and your country would once again be safe
from acts such as 9/11.
As Arthur Koestler said, the myth of the
origins of the majority of Jews is a hoax,
and you are the dupes who have fallen for
it. So wake up! Support the just cause,
and let the Palestinians return to their
rightful home.
* To read other articles on possible solutions to the conflict in
Palestine
read “
One
State
, One Language, One
People’ and ‘A Unified
Palestine
’ in issue 38, January 2001 and ‘A
One
State
Solution: The Only
Way to Achieve Peace’ in issue 40 May
2001, on our website www.alshindagah.com
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