(2 articles) TRUTH OF PALESTINE REVEALED

Submitted by: Donald Hank

Our  sincere thanks to a Marine who is brave in 2 ways: physically and morally. For the record's sake, I was unable to establish that the Palestinians are actually descendants of the original Philistines.

It is true, however, that the Arabic word for Palestinian is Filistin.

The thing is, the original Philistines were apparently an Indo-European people (related to Europeans), while the people who cheekily apply the monicker "Palestinian" to themselves are Arabs (Semitic people, unrelated) of different areas most of whom are unwelcome in their own homelands due to their obstreperous behavior. At any rate, what our Marine friend says about them is true: They came from different areas of the Arab world and are not a homogeneous people, and it was the Jews who lived in Palestine first, so these people are interlopers and liars and not Palestinians in the true sense.

Don Hank

A MARINE REVEALS TRUTH ABOUT PALESTINE

Dear Don,
      As a Boy Scout, with the rank of Life Scout, as a retired Marine, two decades of active duty, retiring due to gulf war syndrome and the multiple sclerosis which I have from it, retiring as a Gunnery Sergeant, having spent most of my adult life patroling around the middle east as a professional "peacekeeper", I have to ask why so many speak such foolishness about "The Palestinians".

      In 1948, a small majority of The Palestinians, Jewish, Zionist, seeking their homeland, announced their re-establishment of Israel, after attempting for two solid years to get proper recognition through normal procedures.

      As they prepared to do so, word leaked out, the surrounding Arab nations threatened a Pan-Arab attack which would annihilate the Zionists.  They warned Arabs in the territory to leave, with the promise they could return and lay claim to the whole when the Pan-Arab army had eliminated all the Jews.

      No consideration was made for the possibility of failure, and because of this, when Israel won that war, and declared its self a Nation, "The Palestinians", living under that moniker, imposed upon them as a jibe and hateful insult by Rome, calling them by the Latin name of their earliest enemies, "the Philistines", returned to their proper Name, Israel, and discarded the Roman imposed insult of "Palestine", as irrelevant.

     All the Arabs who remained to keep their homes, their land, and the nation they lived in, are now citizens of Israel, with the full rights and privileges of such.  Those the Arabs call "Palestinians" are the fools who deserted their homes, ran away refusing to defend home, hearth, land, and ownership, and while they have made of themselves "refugees", no one has any cause to be held to account for what they chose to do instead of taking the responsibility for their own lives and their own homes.

     There are and have never been "Palestinians" since the day in 1948 when Israel became a Nation, and threw off the hated insult of "philistine" in latin, and re-assumed their proper Name, Israel.

     There are, were, and have been Arabs living in Israel ever since Israel was led into the land, and The People refused to follow the demands of God and kill all the inhabitants of the land.  The People living there were called "immoral, unlawful and called by God to be eliminated", yet the children of Israel felt pity and mercy and refused to do as God commanded.

     It is solely because of their "feelings and in particular pity", that descendants of the Philistines, who attacked Isreal time and again precisely because they failed to kill all of them as God demanded, that Arabs continued to live within Israel at the time of the first and second temples, and today.

     It is time we remember this history, take note it has never been "Israel" which has been destructive to the "philistines", but their pity and mercy which has allowed such to remain.  They are the Arabs who deliberately chose to trust the Israelites as their ancestors did, rather than the surrounding Arabs, and protect their own homes, and keep their place.  It is time to reinforce the fact Israel affords its citizens, Jew and Arab alike, rights, equal, without prejudice, and it is time to take this note, and present it to both the "philistine" who has chosen to live in the Nation of his "historical enemy", but the one who gave, not only showed mercy, and accept it's completeness, including the responsibility of returning right for right, honor for honor, life for life, and also recognize it has been the surrounding Arabs, of every tribe and Nation, who have refused them any comfort, denied any possible move, citizenship, but have used them solely as "flees and ticks" on the body politic of Israel, while pretending friendship.

      The "Palestinians" have made a Nation of "The Territories", established by Rome, kept as such by France, Britain, war, and only released by the uprising of the Jewish People, re-assembling in their home, and asserting their power over their Nation, once again.

      No "war refugees" have ever been allowed to remain such for any significant time after the war, and by no means generations, and suggesting the descendants of those who once were refugees, are refugees themselves is to deny the history of the world, writ over seven millennia.

      The Nation Israel is undermined by no different an infiltration of "know-nothings" as the whole of the West has, and these are the socialists, the communists, the people who simply won't read history, note facts and recognize the ridiculous nature of their assertions and suggested nature of man.  The Russians will not soon resort to communism, it will take many generations to forget the depredations such a system made on their Nation and The People.

       Vladimir Putin is not going to be on the top of my list of people to take advise from on a daily basis, however when he speaks at any time about the depredations of socialism, the destructive force of communism, and the need of the west to learn from Russia's errors, I will listen well, because I spent eight years of my professional Marine career, watching Russia rend its forces against the cliffs of Afghanistan, while we supplied the Taliban with simple, low tech weapons, and watched them evade the best efforts of the most powerful army besides our own, and watch it dash its self against the cliffs, causing massive losses in manpower and equipment, but more importantly, losses of morale, the complete loss of conviction of the ability to win this war, and the certainty of its abject futility.

      As a Staff Sergeant, I watched, commented, and shared thoughts with Lieutenants, Captains, Colonels, and a General or two, and with identical lessons learned by all.  At the moment of our attack on 9-11, I knew we were going to go the exact wrong route, and chase a man, and not the cause, issue, the reason for the attack.

      Every considering warrior American dreaded that day, because we knew those who started their tactical thinking, initiated their considerations of what just took place, right then, was going to come to a woefully wrong, totally inadequate conclusion, and we would shortly enter a series of wars for which there would be no win, no possibility of significant or substantive change, and we would change the names and faces of the tyrants, but leave the actions, means, and principles of those who attacked us, unchanged, and would conclude without having ameliorated the threat an iota.

    We now have expended a quarter of what is our "stated national debt" in the past decade of debacle, and we remain with our foremost enemy, Saudi Arabia, manipulating both ourselves and who we have take to war, and those as well, playing both sides against the middle, and fully infiltrating our own nation with those such as Nidal Hassan; too American to accept his own statement of Jihad, proven out by his exacting actions, yet strewn across the whole of the Nation, in every military unit, every jail, prison, every government program welcoming immigrants as workers, meaning our schools, our power administrating offices of government, the IRS, BATFE, Homeland Security and our police and firemen.

     It would be well to note America gave the Saudis an iron clad guarantee of being the suppliers of Imams and all manner of instructors of Islam for all government controlled areas of operation, and they fill these billets each and every day to this day.  Wahabi Muslims all.

Semper Fidelis,

John M

GySgt, USMC, ret.

Vanceboro, NC

 

on Jul 12, 2013, DON HANK <zoilandon@msn.com> wrote:

Our thanks to Dave H  for this. Don Hank

by Khaled Abu Toameh
July 12, 2013 at 5:00 am

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3847/egypt-punishes-palestinians

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Egypt is allowed to strangle the entire Gaza Strip and deny its people food and fuel, especially on the eve of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, but one hardly hears about these anti-Palestinian measures: they are being carried out by an Arab country, not by Israel.

The Palestinians often complain that Israel, the US and other countries keep intervening in their internal affairs. These complaints often draw much attention from the Western media and many in the international community.

But when the Palestinians meddle in the internal affairs of Arab countries, sometimes triggering acts of violence and instability, the international media and public opinion tend to look the other way.

And when the Arab countries retaliate by punishing the Palestinians, as is happening these days between the Palestinians and Egypt, the international community and human rights organizations rush to bury their heads in the sand.

Egypt is allowed to strangle the entire Gaza Strip and deny its people food and fuel, especially on the eve of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, but the media and human rights groups are missing in action. This, by the way, is happening at a time when Israel has announced a series of gestures toward the Palestinians on the occasion of Ramadan.

Each time they are punished for poking their nose into other people's business, the Palestinians start whining and crying, accusing the Arab countries of turning against them.
Today, it is Egypt's turn to punish the Palestinians for meddling in that country's internal affairs.
Following the military coup that ended President Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood regime, the first decision the new rulers of Egypt took was to ban Palestinians from entering their country without prior permission from Egypt's security authorities.

As these security forces rarely issue permits to Palestinians to enter Egypt, this decision means that thousands of Palestinians will not be able to continue their studies, receive medical treatment or visit relatives there.

The Palestinians have a long history of meddling in the internal affairs of Arab countries, even if that always proves to be counterproductive and harmful to Palestinian interests. Now, the new rulers of Egypt are extremely angry with the Palestinians, especially Hamas, for supporting Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood.

But instead of punishing Hamas and its leaders, the Egyptian authorities have resorted to collective punishment against the Palestinians, particularly those living in the Gaza Strip.

One hardly hears and reads about these anti-Palestinian measures: they are being carried out by an Arab country, not by Israel.

Since the ouster of Morsi, the Egyptians have closed down the Rafah border crossing along their shared border with the Gaza Strip, leaving thousands of passengers stranded on both sides of the border.

About 2,000 Palestinian pilgrims who were in Mecca have not been able to return home because of the closure of the Rafah terminal.

In addition, hundreds of Palestinian university students and patients have not been permitted to leave the Gaza Strip.

Thousands of Palestinians living in various countries, who were planning to spend the summer vacation with their relatives, have also been deprived of entering the Gaza Strip.

The closure of the border crossing has also been accompanied by an Egyptian military offensive to destroy dozens of smuggling tunnels along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. This offensive, which began last week, has resulted in a severe shortage of basic goods, fuel and gas inside the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinians are now paying a heavy price for Hamas's and others' intervention in the internal affairs of Egypt.

Further, Hamas's rivals in Fatah and the Palestinian Authority are now repeating the same mistake by supporting the military coup against Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood.

If and when the Muslim Brotherhood returns to power, they will do to Fatah and the Palestinian Authority what the Egyptian authorities are doing now to Hamas and Palestinian supporters of Morsi.

Sadly, the Palestinians have not learned the lesson from previous mistakes they made when they pushed their noses into other people's business. Each time the Palestinians get involved in internal conflicts in the Arab world, they always end up being the biggest losers

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been killed, injured and displaced in Syria over the past two years. Again, because some Palestinians have either joined the "rebels" or the pro-Assad forces, this is a self-inflicted tragedy.

In the past, the Palestinians paid a very heavy price for meddling in the internal affairs of Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan and other Arab countries, but this price has not deterred them.

That meddling is also the reason most Arab countries have long despised the Palestinians, subjecting them to Apartheid laws and other punitive measures, including travel bans and deprivation of financial aid.

For earning the enmity and contempt of their Arab brethren, the Palestinians have only themselves to blame: they shoot themselves in the foot and then blame others for their misery. They would be better served if instead they would start directing their energies toward solving their own problems and improving their living conditions -- exactly what the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas governments are not doing