When
Jordan’s Arab Legion seized half of Jerusalem, ethnically cleansed its Jewish
population and annexed the city– the only entity to recognize the annexation
was the United Kingdom which had provided the officers and the training that
made the conquest possible. Officers like Colonel Bill Newman, Major Geoffrey
Lockett and Major Bob Slade, under Glubb Pasha, better known as General John
Bagot Glubb, whose son later converted to Islam, invaded Jerusalem and used the
Muslim forces under their command to make the partition and ethnic cleansing of
Jerusalem possible.
The
Jews living in the free half of Jerusalem continued to be killed by Jordanian
Muslim snipers. The victims of those years of Muslim occupation included Yaffa
Binyamin, a 14-year-old girl sitting on the balcony of her own house and a
Christian carpenter working on the Notre Dame Convent.
Under
Muslim occupation, while Muslim snipers were cold-bloodedly murdering their
children, the Jewish residents living under fire couldn’t so much as put in an
outhouse without being reported to the UN for illegal construction. In one case
a UN observer organization held four meetings to discuss an outhouse for local
residents before condemning Israel for illegal construction. It did not however
condemn Jordan when one of its soldiers opened fire on a train wounding a
Jewish teenage girl.
Not
very much has changed. The hysterical condemnations of “illegal construction”
did not end when the Muslim occupation did. The great outhouse of the United
Nations and the smaller outhouses of the foreign ministries of countries whose
leaders tremble whenever Muslims grow agitated over a cartoon or a YouTube
video fill the air with the vilest of substances whenever a Jewish family moves
into a home in Jerusalem.
It
would be inconceivable for the international community to denounce an
ethnically cleansed group which survived attempted genocide for moving back
into its own city. It is, however, standard policy at the State Department and
the Foreign Office to denounce Jews living in those parts of Jerusalem that had
been ethnically cleansed by Muslims, as “settlers” living in “settlements,” and
accuse them of being an “obstruction to peace.” Peace being the state of
affairs that sets in when an ethnic cleansing goes unchallenged.
What
we are talking about here is not peace, but ethnic cleansing. In 1948, the Jews
were ethnically cleansed from Jerusalem to Islamize the city. Their synagogues
were blown up by the Muslim occupiers. Their tombstones were used to line the
roads traveled by the racist Muslim settlers. In 1948, the Jews were ethnically
cleansed from Jerusalem to Islamize the city. Whether they were Zionists or
anti-Zionists did not matter. They were not Muslims. That was all that counted.
“For
the first time in 1,000 years not a single Jew remains in the Jewish Quarter,”
Abdullah el-Talal, a commander of the Muslim invaders, had boasted. “Not a
single building remains intact. This makes the Jews’ return here impossible.”
In his memoirs he wrote, “I knew that the Jewish Quarter was densely populated
with Jews who caused their fighters a good deal of interference and
difficulty…. Only four days after our entry into Jerusalem the Jewish Quarter
had become their graveyard. Death and destruction reigned over it.”
Every
politician who denounces Jews building houses in Jerusalem, but not Muslims
doing the same thing is endorsing Abdullah’s genocidal vision and all the
terrorism that goes with it.
In
1920, racist Muslim settler mobs in Jerusalem had chanted “Mohammed’s religion
was born with the sword”, “Death to the Jews” and “the government is with us”
as Muslim policemen under British colonial rule had joined with them in the
rape and murder of the indigenous Jewish population.
Too
many governments are still with those who wave the sword of Mohammed and cry
death to the Jews. They encourage them, defend their agenda and issue weak
rebukes when blood is spilled in the name of Islamization in Jerusalem, as it
is in Kobani by ISIS and a thousand other places. Those who endorse the
Islamization of Jerusalem cannot escape responsibilities for the crimes of the
Islamizers.
Describing
Jewish homes in Jerusalem, one of the world’s oldest cities, a city that all
three religions in the region associate with Jews and Jewish history, as “settlements”
is a triumph of distorted language that Orwell would have to tip his hat to.
How does one have “settlements” in a city older than London or Washington D.C.?
To
understand that, you would have to ask London and Washington D.C. where the diplomats
insist that one more round of Israeli compromises will bring peace.
They
say that there are three religions in Jerusalem, but there are actually four.
The fourth religion is the true Religion of Peace, the one that insists that
there will be peace when the Jews have been expelled from Judea and Samaria,
driven out of their homes in Jerusalem, and made into wanderers and beggars
once again. Oddly enough, this religion’s name isn’t even Islam– it’s
diplomacy.
Diplomacy
says that the 1948 borders set by Arab countries invading Israel should be the
final borders and that, when Israel reunified a sundered city in 1967, it was
an act of aggression, while, when seven Arab armies invaded Israel in 1948, it
was a legitimate way to set permanent boundaries. When Jordan ethnically
cleansed East Jerusalem, it set a standard that Israelis are obligated to
follow to this day by staying out of East Jerusalem. To violate that ethnic
cleansing endangers peace.
When
Muslims move into a Jewish town, there’s no clamor. When Muslim countries fund
Muslim housing in Israel, there are no angry statements. Muslim housing in
Jerusalem or anywhere in Israel is not a problem. Only Jewish housing is. The
issue is not Israel. If it were, then Arabs with Israeli citizenship would also
be condemned. It’s only the Jews who are the problem.
The
entire Peace Process is really a prolonged solution to the latest phase of the
Jewish Problem. The problem, as stated by so many diplomats, is that there are
Jews living in places that Muslims want. There were Jews living in Gaza before
1948, but they were driven out, they came back, and then they were driven out
again by their own government in compliance with international demands. Now
only Hamas lives in Gaza and it’s as peaceful and pleasant without the Jews as
Nazi Germany.
But
there are still Jews in the West Bank and they have to be gotten rid of. Once
enough Jews have been expelled, there will be peace. That’s not a paragraph
from Mein Kampf, it’s not some lunatic sermon from Palestinian Authority
television– it is the consensus of the international community. This consensus
states that the only reason there still isn’t peace is because enough Jews
haven’t been expelled from their homes. The ethnic cleansing for peace hasn’t
gone far enough.
There
will be peace when all the Jews are gone. That much is certainly undeniable.
Just look at Gaza or Egypt or Iraq or Afghanistan, which has a grand total of
two Jews, both of them in their seventies. Or Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Syria
where peace reigns now that the Jews are gone. Some might say that violence
seems to increase proportionally with the number of Muslims, but we all know
that would be Islamophobic. On the other hand suggesting that violence
increases with the number of Jews living on land that Muslims want, that’s just
diplomacy. A common sense fact that everyone who is anyone in foreign policy
knows to be true.
How
will we know when the Muslims have gotten all the land that they want? When the
violence stops. Everyone knows that agreements mean nothing. No matter how many
pieces of paper are signed, the bombs and rockets still keep bursting. The only
way to reach an agreement is by groping blindly in the dark, handing over
parcel after parcel of land, until the explosions stop or the Muslims fulfill
their original goal of pushing the Jews into the sea.
That’s
the wonderful thing about diplomacy if you’re a diplomat and the terrible thing
about it if you are anyone else without a secure way out of the country when
diplomacy fails. And diplomacy in the region always fails. Camp David and every
single agreement Israel has signed with Muslim countries aren’t worth the paper
they’re written on. The only peace treaty that counts is the one made by tanks
and rifles. It’s the one made by Israeli planes in Egyptian skies and Israeli
soldiers walking the border. It’s the one made by Jewish farmers and ranchers,
tending their sheep and their fields, with rifles strung over their backs. The
only peace that’s worth anything is the peace of the soldiers and settlers.
In
1966, Jerusalem was a city sundered in two, divided by barbed wire and the
bullets of Muslim snipers. Diplomacy did not reunite it. Israel pursued
diplomacy nearly to its bitter end until it understood that it had no choice at
all but to fight. Israel did not swoop into the fight, its leaders did their best
to avoid the conflict, asking the international community to intervene and stop
Egypt from going to war. Read back the headlines for the last five years on
Israel and Iran, and you will get a sense of the courage and determination of
the Israeli leaders of the day.
When
Israel went to war, its leaders did not want to liberate Jerusalem, they wanted
Jordan to stay out of the war. Even when Jordan entered the war, they did not
want to liberate the city. Divine Providence and Muslim hostility forced them
to liberate Jerusalem and forced them to keep it. Now some of them would like
to give it back, another sacrifice to the bloody deity of diplomacy whose altar
flows with blood and burnt sacrifices.
As we
remember Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day, it is important to remember that the
city is united and free because diplomacy failed. The greatest triumph of the
modern state happened only because diplomacy proved hopeless and useless in
deterring Muslim genocidal ambitions. Had Israel succumbed to international pressure
and had Nasser been as subtle as Sadat, then the Six-Day War would have looked
like the Yom Kippur War fought with 1948 borders– and Israel very likely would
not exist today.
Even
as Jews remember the great triumph of Yom Yerushalayim, the ethnic cleansers
and their accomplices are busy searching for ways to drive Jews out of
Jerusalem, out of towns, villages and cities. This isn’t about the Arab
residents of Jerusalem, who have repeatedly asserted that they want to remain
part of Israel. It’s not about peace, which did not come from any previous
round of concessions, and will not come from this one either. It’s about
solving the Jewish problem.
As
long as Jews allow themselves to be defined as the problem, there will be
plenty of those offering solutions. And the solutions invariably involve doing
something about the Jews. It only stands to reason that if Jews are the
problem, then moving them or getting rid of them is the solution. There is less
friction in defining Jews as the problem, than in defining Muslims as the
problem. The numbers alone mean that is so.
Yom
Yerushalayim is a reminder of what the real problem is and what the real
solution is. Muslim occupation of Israel is the problem. The Islamization of
Jerusalem is the problem. Muslim violence in support of the Muslim occupation
of Israel and of everywhere else is the problem. Israel is the solution. Only
when we liberate ourselves from the lies, when we stop believing that we are
the problem and recognize that we are the solution. Only then will the
liberation that began in 1967 be complete.
Only
then will we have liberated our Jerusalem. The Jerusalem of the soul. It is
incumbent on all of us to liberate that little Jerusalem within. The holy city
that lives in all of us. To clean the dross off its golden gates, wash the
filth from its stones and expel the invaders gnawing away at our hearts until
we look proudly upon a shining city. Then to help others liberate their own
Jerusalems. Only then will we truly be free.
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