Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Sen. Menendez (D, NJ ) makes a compelling and factual speech about Palestine.

http://tinyurl.com/mzvymc
Sen. Bob Menendez explicates the proper history of Palestine ( in contradistinction to Pres. Obama's mistaken -- either ignorant or malicious -- version ).
You may find other proximate YouTube pieces by Arab propagandists such as Obama's friend, Rashid Khalidi, and renegade self-hating Israelis such as Ilan Pappe. Their claim that a "vibrant and populous" Arab population existed in Palestine before Zionist Jewish arrival is false. Their version is gainsaid by Mark Twain's descriptions in Innocents Abroad where his visit to Ottoman-ruled Palestine in 1867 helps prove that the Arab presence in what is today Israel was so insignificant and moribund before the arrival of Zionist pioners that modern Palestinian claims on the land are unfounded. It is true that most Arabs came as newcomers to the land AFTER Zionist pioneers had cleared the malarial swamps, introduced modern agriculture and made the area prosper. More to the point,however, there was no sense of a separate national identity on the part of those Arabs who came to share in the benefits of development (and money invested by such as Baron de Hirsch, Moses Montefiore et al.). The very term "Nakba", invented by Arafat to indicate Palestinian nationalism and referring to 1948, actually dates back to 1922. At that time, the Palestinian Arabs, who considered themselves part of SYRIA, termed it a catastrophe ( Nakba ) that Palestine was made part of the British Mandate while Syria was made part of the French Mandate.Indeed, until the time of Arafat, when the world referred to "Palestine" it was to refer to "Jewish Palestine" as distinct from the Arabs who were also there; Jewish musicians who achieved fame on the world stage were called "Palestinian."//
Menendez has made sense eloquently on other occasions:
http://tinyurl.com/na9986

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