How
the “Palestinians” Were Invented, by Robert Spencer, 8/12/18, Freedom Outpost.
Western
authorities never seem to ponder why so many attempts to achieve a negotiated
peace between Israel and the “Palestinians,” whose historical existence
everyone by now takes for granted, have all failed. The answer, of course, lies
in the Islamic doctrine of jihad.
Note: This is an exclusive excerpt from
Robert Spencer’s new book, The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS
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All quotes are sourced in the book.
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All quotes are sourced in the book.
In
1948, the nascent state of Israel defeated forces from Egypt, Iraq, Syria,
Transjordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen that had been determined to
destroy it utterly. The jihad against it continued, but it held firm, defeating
Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon again in the Six-Day War in 1967, and
Egypt and Syria yet again in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. In winning these
victories against enormous odds, Israel won the admiration of the free world,
leading to the largest-scale and most audacious application in Islamic history
of Muhammad’s dictum “War is deceit.”
In order to destroy the impression of the
tiny Jewish state’s facing enormous Muslim Arab foes and prevailing, the Soviet
KGB (the Soviet Committee for State Security) developed the fiction of an even
smaller people, the “Palestinians,” menaced by a well-oiled and ruthless
Israeli war machine. In A.D. 134, the Romans had expelled the Jews from Judea
after the Bar Kokhba revolt and renamed the region Palestine, a name they plucked from the Bible,
the name of the Israelites’ ancient enemies, the Philistines. But never had the
name Palestinian referred to anything but a region, not
to a people or an ethnicity. In the 1960s, however, the KGB and Hajj Amin
al-Husseini’s nephew Yasir Arafat created both these allegedly oppressed people
and the instrument of their freedom, the Palestine Liberation Organization
(PLO).
Ion
Mihai Pacepa, who had served as acting chief of Cold War– era Communist
Romania’s spy service, later revealed that “the PLO was dreamt up by the KGB,
which had a penchant for ‘liberation’ organizations. There was the National
Liberation Army of Bolivia, created by the KGB in 1964 with help from Ernesto
‘Che’ Guevara…the KGB also created the Democratic Front for the Liberation of
Palestine, which carried out numerous bombing attacks….
In
1964 the first PLO Council, consisting of 422 Palestinian representatives
handpicked by the KGB, approved the Palestinian National Charter—a document
that had been drafted in Moscow. The Palestinian National Covenant and the
Palestinian Constitution were also born in Moscow, with the help of Ahmed
Shuqairy, a KGB influence agent who became the first PLO chairman.”
For
Arafat to head up the PLO, he had to be a Palestinian. Pacepa explained that
“he was an Egyptian bourgeois turned into a devoted Marxist by KGB foreign
intelligence. The KGB had trained him at its Balashikha special-operations
school east of Moscow and in the mid- 1960s decided to groom him as the future PLO leader. First, the KGB
destroyed the official records of Arafat’s birth in Cairo, and replaced them
with fictitious documents saying that he had been born in Jerusalem and was
therefore a Palestinian by birth.”
Arafat
may have been a Marxist, at least at first, but he and his Soviet handlers made
copious use of Islamic anti-Semitism. KGB chief Yuri Andropov noted that “the Islamic
world was a waiting petri dish in which we could nurture a virulent strain of
America-hatred, grown from the bacterium of Marxist-Leninist thought. Islamic
anti-Semitism ran deep…. We had only to keep repeating our themes—that the
United States and Israel were ‘fascist, imperial-Zionist countries’ bankrolled
by rich Jews. Islam was obsessed with preventing the infidels’ occupation of
its territory, and it would be highly receptive to our characterization of the
U.S. Congress as a rapacious Zionist body aiming to turn the world into a
Jewish fiefdom.”
PLO
executive committee member Zahir Muhsein explained the strategy more fully in a
1977 interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw: The
Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only
a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab
unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians,
Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do
we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national
interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct “Palestinian people”
to oppose Zionism.
For
tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders,
cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can
undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment
we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to
unite Palestine and Jordan.
Once
the people had been created, their desire for peace could be easily fabricated
as well. Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu tutored Arafat in how to play the
West like a fiddle. Pacepa recounted: “In March 1978, I secretly brought Arafat
to Bucharest for final instructions on how to behave in Washington. ‘You simply
have to keep on pretending that you’ll break with terrorism and that you’ll
recognize Israel—over, and over, and over,’ Ceausescu told him [Arafat]….
Ceausescu was euphoric over the prospect that both Arafat and he might be able
to snag a Nobel Peace Prize with their fake displays of the olive branch….
Ceausescu failed to get his Nobel Peace Prize. But in 1994 Arafat got his—all because
he continued to play the role we had given him to perfection. He had
transformed his terrorist PLO into a government-in-exile (the Palestinian
Authority), always pretending to call a halt to Palestinian terrorism while
letting it continue unabated. Two years after signing the Oslo Accords, the
number of Israelis killed by Palestinian terrorists had risen by 73 percent.”
This
strategy continued to work beautifully, through U.S.-brokered “peace process”
after “peace process,” from the 1978 Camp David Accords into the presidency of
Barack Obama and beyond, with no end in sight. Western authorities never seem
to ponder why so many attempts to achieve a negotiated peace between Israel and
the “Palestinians,” whose historical existence everyone by now takes for
granted, have all failed. The answer, of course, lies in the Islamic doctrine
of jihad. “Drive them out from where they drove you out” is a command that
contains no mitigation and accepts none.
Article
posted with permission from Robert Spencer
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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