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"I believe that the Jewish people have the right to have a state," Gingrich said in the interview. "Remember, there was no Palestine as a state. It was part of the Ottoman Empire. And I think that we've had an invented Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs, who are historically part of the Arab community." (CNN).
The usual and very pridictable reactions from CNN, NYT and leftie media types who, as Dr Lightman said "never let the facts get in the way of the truth." Here's the facts pals of Hamas and the PLO and if you just open any reputable non Arab history of this region, you might learn something.
There was NO Arab nations until after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The French and Brits just drew lines in the sand and called it this and that. In the case of Transjordan, it had a nice ring and so it was!
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| Sykes-Picot Map of 1916. Transjordan (Article 25) Under the terms of the Sykes-Picot agreements of 1916, the land east of the Jordan was to be part of an Arab state or confederation of Arab states part of the purpose of which was to create an Arab territory east of the Jordan River. When the Inter-Allied Conference at San Remo adjourned in April 1920, the text of the Palestine mandate did not contain Article 25, or mention "the territories lying between the Jordan and the eastern boundary of Palestine as ultimately determined. A Palestine within the western political understanding of the term simply never existed. |
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(Maps/Photo: Copyright Control).
And here's the history of this region, with a bit of documentation!
The Bible never uses the name of “Palestine”, but calls it the land “Judah” or “Israel”. Mt. 2:20-21: “Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead who sought the young child’s life. And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.”
To understand this name we must look at some historical background. In Joel 3:4: “Indeed, what have you to do with Me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the coasts ofPhilistia?
The Philistines were not Middle Eastern or Arab. The Philistines are believed to be an Aegean people (from the Adriatic sea near Greece.) who, in the 12th Century BC, settled along the Mediterranean coast of what is called the Gaza Strip.
The Moslem/ Arabs in that area started calling themselves “Palestinians” 40 years ago! No people or nation ever ruled as a sovereign national entity on this land, there is no Palestinian language or culture in past history. Palestine, as a country does not presently exist. No Arab nation has their historical roots on the land and no one has claim to this territory other than the Jews. The Jewish rule of this land extended over a period of over 2000 years. Israel became a nation in the land in 1312 BC. The land given in a covenant (Deuteronomy 29:1-30:20) and they lived there.
Learn the facts OWS and the rest of the anti-Israel brigade...
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