44 posts tagged “israeli existence”
Here is a book review by William Mehlman of Howard Grief’s book explaining the bona fides of an Israeli State which should include what is known to Israelis as Judea and Samaria but to the Westerners as the West Bank or Occupied Territory.
Grief uses the premise of documents that came from Post WWI Allies and the League of Nations to support that Jerusalem is all Israel’s and that Israel is entitled to land that closely matches the Land of Israel’s ancient borders.
JRH 12/4/09
Ari Bussel seems to be a Center-Left pro-Israel hawk. This means I agree with many of his pro-Israel writings but disagree with many of his solutions or conclusions.
Here is a brief profile blurb on the Conservative oriented Canadian Free Press:
Ari Bussel is a reporter and an activist on behalf of Israel, the Jewish Homeland. Ari left Beverly Hills and came to Israel 13 weeks to work in Israel Diplomacy’s Front from Israel. Ari runs a website web.me.com/bussel. Ari can be reached at aribussel@gmail.com.
Here is a profile from the Leftist oriented OpEdNews.com:
Ari Bussel is an activist with a deep passion and commitment to truth. His continuous fact-finding missions to the Middle East to secure truthful and factual information about the status of the situation are disseminated to a worldwide audience through his letters, journals and articles.
Bussel is a graduate of UCLA and Stanford. His area of expertise is Israel's Public Diplomacy.
Since October, 2008, Bussel has collaborated with award-winning investigative journalist and author Norma Zager in a series of essays "Postcards from Israel - Postcards from Home." (About OpEdNews.com)
With this in mind here is an interesting outlook by Ari Bussel sent to SlantRight.com entitled, “The Advancing Storm.” Bussel writes about Jewish Settlements in Judea and Samaria (aka West Bank or to Leftists as Occupied Territory), Settler’s Rights, Jewish Construction, Arab Construction and the how possible choices may lead to an all out war for Israel’s survival.
JRH 12/2/09
Herbert London writes about the Obama Administrations undying support to create a sovereign Palestinian State under a Fatah (Chief among princes in the PLO) with Mahmoud Abbas in control. BHO is sticking to this craziness despite the early August 2009 Fatah meeting which reaffirmed it will not recognize a Jewish Israel. The implication being even after Obama gets his way; a Fatah dominated Palestinian State will continue an armed struggle to obliterate Jewish Israel.
JRH 8/31/09
The Western Left and Mohammedans in general have gone to great lengths to equate Israel’s political system to the former racial Apartheid State of White South Africa.
South Africa’s Apartheid was a racial policy in which Whites by law were a superior race and non-whites (mostly indigenous Black Africans) were inferior second class citizens with little to zero civil rights. The Africans (as opposed to the Afrikaners) were the huge majority of the population whose lives were exploited for labor and segregated from the White-Afrikaner populations that enjoyed the primary perks that the Apartheid system provided them.
To accuse the Zionist State of Israel of Apartheid is simply moronic. Within the borders of Israel non-Jewish (Arab) citizens have full rights as citizens even though there is Jewish discrimination against Arab citizens. Arab citizens of Israel have full rights to vote, use mass transportation, and receive medical care and so forth. Arabs and Jews are not prohibited from the same public buildings such as restaurants or water fountains. The discrimination Arab-Israeli citizens’ experience has more to do with individuals not offering rent to Arabs (although a large element of Arabs do rent in predominantly Jewish areas). A loan may be turned down to an Arab-Israeli. Certainly racial profiling is involved by government police forces and the Israeli military in law enforcement and National Security.
It may sound deplorable but I find it understandable there is a large amount of distrust for Arab-Israeli citizens. Can you say, “Islamic terrorism?” Jewish businesses, men, women and children are often the target of Islamic terrorist homicidal attacks. There is the maiming of Jews and foreign tourists. Under the circumstances the state of civil siege Jews receive in Israel I am frankly surprised that Apartheid or repressive actions are not prevalent inside Israel.
The lands conquered as a result of the self-defense from Arab invasions should not be considered occupied as much as repayment for reparations for winning wars of Arab aggression. After all, the 1947 partition plan of the British Mandate of Palestine was to create a Jewish State and an Arab State side-by-side. Multiple Muslim supremacist and Arab nationalist nations could not stand to have Jews return to their homeland in which Muslims conquered in the 700’s AD hence their invasion. The land that was to be the Arab State was gobbled primarily by Jordan (then Transjordan). The Arabs of the former British Palestinian Mandate hence were treated as foreigners by the Hashemite Jordanian Kingdom (Bedouin governing elite) in the land that was designed for their existence in a sovereign nation. Eventually the Arab populace created to be Palestinians by the Arab invaders of 1948 - 67 became a threat to the Hashemite Kingdom and a brief civil war had the Bedouin army expel the PLO terrorist army of Yasser Arafat from Jordan.
Now there was an Apartheid system even before the word came into the existence in the 20th century. The Muslim system of conquest for the chunk of land called Palestine by Romans who evicted a majority of Jews (but not all), was convert to Islam, become an extremely taxed for protection second class citizen not having the same rights as a Muslim OR die.
Life has improved a little in the Muslim Middle East for non-Muslims (kafir), but not much. Most of that improvement is due to Western scrutiny or the symbiotic relationship of receiving Western wealth for oil.
Today’s Arab-Israeli citizenship is treated way better than ANY non-Muslim living in Muslim dominated land!
Steven Plaut wrote an essay about President Barack Hussein Obama’s little published hypocrisy about Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem. It is entitled, “Obama’s Apartheid Plan For Jerusalem.” That plan includes not allowing Jews to rent, own or build in the Old City part of Jerusalem (aka East Jerusalem). That is a prime indication that BHO intends to force Israel to divide Jerusalem giving the eastern part to the Arabs that call themselves Palestinians.
Obama intends to make the Jews who are living in their own Capital City either to move or become the second class citizen that Mohammedan ideology enforces on non-Muslims. In the case of the Arabs that call themselves Palestinians imagine how that second class citizenship will pan out. KEEP IN MIND the Arab media continuously writes and broadcasts lies and hatred about Jews (There are many YouTube links that may have been yanked).
Do you see the irony that a son of an African Muslim who represents the full circle of rights for Afro-Americans in the USA who have a history of slavery in America is promoting class discrimination?
JRH 8/14/09
President Barack Hussein Obama has learned a practice from Palestinian terrorists who control the media of PA and Hamastan. That practice is telling the West one thing while telling their terror supporting constituents another. The former is smooth talking of peace and the latter is vile hatred toward Jews and America followed by promises of the destruction of Israel.
In BHO’s case he tells the American voters that America stands behind Israel out one side of his mouth and tells Israel it must aid in creating a Palestinian State that is devoted to the destruction of Israel from the other side of his mouth.
One of the great tragedies of America is that even American Jews buy into the crooked speech patterns of BHO concerning Israel.
As I write this the West Bank is having its Sixth Fatah General Conference. Look for the Western Media to cherry pick news that portrays Palestinian terrorists as making significant steps of peace and any delay of such is Israel’s fault.
The part the Western Media will ignore or at least be less privy to is the internal agenda that will encourage the destruction of Israel and no doubt make an attempt to address the corrupted rift between Fatah’s terrorists and Hamas’ terrorists.
Read an excellent analysis of the Sixth Fatah General Congress by Pinhas Inbari. The analysis points out this hypocrisy that is maintained by Islamic terrorists which is a kind of a taqiyya strategy of deceiving the kafir while pumping up the Muslim cadres.
JRH 8/6/09
It is becoming very evident that President Hussein Obama’s “real agenda” toward Israel is to force the Jewish Israeli government to give up land that is sacred and acquired by the sweat and blood of its citizens in repulsing invading Arab armies.
BHO is attempting to force Israel to acquiesce to an existential threat in the creation of an Arab State to be known as Palestine.
In BHO’s effort to accomplish his designs he is using the oratorical skills of lying rhetoric to entice Americans as a whole and American Jews in particular to buy into the absurd Two-State Solution for sovereign Israel and a group of Arab created refugees who have NO historical heritage to the land they wish to make a nation.
So far Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government has repulsed the BHO demands concerning Israel; however I am unsure if a little slice of democracy in the Middle East will be able to resist Obama if he begins to squeeze Israel’s economy and Israel’s defense that are backed up by America. (Note backed up but not dependent as a lot of despotic or fragile governments might be.)
Anne Bayefsky writes that Jewish Israeli citizens are coalescing into a majority support for Netanyahu’s resistance to the Obama Agenda.
The irony is that American Jews seem to have a majority favoring the creation of a sovereign Palestine. BHO is attempting to manipulate public support by giving the impression that American Jews are 100% behind the Obama Agenda for Israel. The reality is BHO is asking only American Jews that are extremely favorable to the Obama Agenda and excluding American Jews from voicing concerns about Obama’s agenda being an existential threat to Israel.
JRH 7/20/09 (Hat Tip: ICJS Research)
Caroline Glick reports what Americans will never hear in the Mainstream Media (MSM).
President Barack Hussein Obama has become the dhimmi tool for Arab Muslims to accomplish that which they were unable to do via several wars of invasion; viz. placing Israel in a position of imminent destruction.
To ensure this Obama agenda to promote Islam to the detriment of the Jewish-Zionist State of Israel, BHO has appointed a minion in George Mitchell. Apparently Mitchell’s Obama mandate is to coerce Israel into making Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and Gaza into a viable sovereign State.
BHO has mandated that Mitchell set up his Office of coercion in Jerusalem which is staffed with Arabophile Americans who have a history of promoting the illegitimate cause of a group of Arabs establishing a State called Palestine.
So Prime Minister Netanyahu is in a position in which he has to protect Israel’s existence while stringing BHO along so that the Obamasiah does not cut off the American alliance with the ONLY Western style democracy in the Middle East. Just for clarity, that Western Style democracy is NOT the Islamic-mobocracy of the fractured terrorist leadership of the Palestine Authority and Hamas. Israel has all the elements of a viable republic in which the voting citizens have a voice in who manages the Israeli government. This incidentally includes Israeli-Arab citizens who are not Jewish friendly.
The PA/Hamas mobocracy wishes to exterminate Jews living in the West Bank. The Israeli government actually accommodated the Hamas mob in Gaza by forcing the Jews out. Did Hamas peacefully appropriate the viable business operation left behind by Jewish settlers in Gaza? NO! They not only trashed the viable Jewish infrastructure but the Hamas mob violated Left Behind synagogues.
Christian-Arabs had been a significant population in the West Bank. For years the majority population of the city of Bethlehem was the Christian-Arabs. Islamic persecution and supremacism has forced a significant amount of Christian-Arabs to flee the West Bank allowing the Muslim-Arabs to usurp their land and their livelihood.
Let us also mention that the official agenda of both PA Islamic terrorists and Hamas Islamic terrorists is to exterminate the Jewish State of Israel.
With all this in mind. How in the world does President Barack Hussein Obama honestly believe that creating a hostile State of Muslim Arabs called Palestine can remotely solve the Middle East’s peace problems?
Let me finish off my thoughts with Glick’s conclusions of what Prime Minister Netanyahu faces with the Obama agenda and his Mitchell minions:
And that's the thing of it. At the end of the day, Netanyahu has three main challenges that he must meet if he is to successfully protect Israel in the coming years. He must prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. He must secure Israel's national and strategic interests in Judea and Samaria and sole Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem. And he must do what he can to avoid an open breach with Washington.
By deploying Mitchell to Jerusalem, Obama is trying to prevent Netanyahu from achieving any of these aims. Only by neutralizing Mitchell will Netanyahu free his schedule to contend with them.
JRH 6/13/09
Carol Glick predicted that the execution of the BHO’s Cairo Speech is part of an agenda to discredit Prime Minister Netanyahu then implement meddling in Israel’s internal politics to bring down Netanyahu’s Likud coalition government. This would enable Obama-friendly and Palestine State-friendly Kadima led by Tzipi Livni to create the global Leftist agenda of creating a sovereign Palestine nation.
A sovereign Palestine would not decrease Middle Eastern violence, rather such an Arab abomination would another bullet in the gun aimed at Israel with the intention of the Jewish State’s destruction.
Shmuel Rosner has put together a series of quotes that measures the outcome of an Obama agenda to bring down the Netanyahu government.
JRH 6/8/09
Here is a plea from the Jerusalem Prayer Team to support Israel even if our President cuddles to the Islamic world. Cuddling to the Islamic world would of course mean Barack Hussein Obama is throwing Israel under the bus.
BHO’s appeasement policies will probably make possible a Middle East Muslim’s dream: the destruction of Israel and the Second Holocaust.
Join the Jerusalem Prayer Team by the millions to keep Israel alive and solvent for God Almighty to do His thing when BHO forces American Policy to abandon Jewish Israel in favor of Middle Eastern Muslims.
Read the following JPT request for support then read Mike Evans’ essay entitled, “President Vows Middle East Solution in Two Years”.
JRH 6/3/09
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Obama to deliver speech in Cairo, Egypt
JERUSALEM REPORT
From Mike Evans, founder of the Jerusalem Prayer Team
Email Sent: June, 2009 8:54:13 AM
Please VOTE Today:
President Obama, please stand with Israel.
President Obama, please do not stand with Israel.
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Thank you to the 740 Jerusalem Prayer Team partners who have given to bless Israel. We need 1,100 to give in order to reach our goal. We are more than halfway there. Please pray today for all that have given and for those who have not given to give a gift today. Pray that God will bless them according to Psalm 122:6: "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall PROSPER that love thee." And, Genesis 12:3 says, "I will BLESS them that BLESS thee..."
Barukh attah Adonai elohoeinu melekh ha-olam, she'asah li kol tzorki.
Blessed art thou, Lord our God, King of the Universe, who provides for me all my needs.
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In case you are not aware. President Barack Hussein Obama has joined the “give the Arabs that call themselves Palestinians a sovereign nation” crowd. This crowd spreads across the Democrat-Republican political spectrum. Most Democrats believe the poor Arabs put in refugee camps because of a multitude of Arab invasions into Israel suffer because Israeli occupation. How can a nation occupy land that was theirs in the first place?
The Republicans in the pro-Two-State solution believe a sovereign Palestinian State will be the beginning of the end of American hatred in the Middle East.
Both these Democrats and Republicans are nuts.
I am a Bible kind-of-guy and as such I see even more land that is not modern Israel’s indeed should be. But let’s go into the secular realm.
After the Ottoman Turks lost WWI the British and the French took possession of the Ottoman Middle East. The League of Nations placed the imprimatur of protection of the Arab Middle East which was divided arbitrarily into British and French spheres of influence called Mandates. The Palestine Mandate was carved out and there was a lot of lobbying to create a homeland for Jews to return to their ancestral homeland: hence the Balfour Declaration toward that end.
Jews had lived in the Levant even under Ottoman rule. After the Balfour Declaration, European Jews began slowly to immigrate to the Palestine Mandate. In the early 1900’s the Arabs that lived in the area could care less about Jewish immigration. The land was considered economically useless.
Jewish ingenuity sparked from Western learning devised ways to make agriculturally usable and economically productive. Even at this early point the Arabs were somewhat happy about the Jewish productivity for it provided employment for Arabs. Indeed the economic boom that came to the former Ottoman holdings enticed Arabs in the Middle East to immigrate to the area for better paying jobs.
Eventually the Arabs that had been under the Ottoman Turk thumb for so many generations began to resent foreign management by Britain and France. The Arabs did not foresee merely switching overlords from Ottoman Turks to the British and the French. Naturally this disgruntlement began to lead to a sense of nationalism. There has always been a Pan-Arab dream of the old glory days; however the Arab Middle East had been carved up according League of Nations (i.e. European) colonialism. There was not one unifying figure for a Pan-Arab nation and I am certain the British and the French would not view such an expansive single State to their national interest. Thus the Arab nationalism fell to tribal or clan families to assert dominance in the European arbitrary borders drawn up for the Arab Middle East.
Naturally the Arabs of the Palestine Mandate became nationalistic as well. This nationalism began to lead toward a dislike of the growing Jewish presence in the Jewish ancestral homeland. This Arab nationalism influenced the British to change their mind a bit on the existence of a Jewish homeland in the face of hostile Arab nationalism.
Indeed the Arab nationalism in the Palestine Mandate began to be belligerent when fellows like the Egyptian born Grand Mufti of Jerusalem began sowing Jew hatred into the Palestine Mandate Arabs.
Unfortunately for the racist Islamic Supremacist Grand Mufti al Husseini, the Jews were a large enough part of the Palestine Mandate population to not be intimidated by hate-speech and anti-Semitism that Jews had been acquainted with for thousands of years anyway.
The more hostile the al-Husseini Muslim-Arabs were to the Jews, the more the Jews pushed back against the Arabs.
The British began to realize they were in an untenable situation that no matter what the Brits did, neither Jewish nor Arab would be a happy camper.
The British solution: Figure out a way to get out of dodge.
The British problem: The Palestine Mandate was an international Trust the British had accepted for capitalistic reasons but were stuck for the responsibility when internecine nationalism became unprofitable for the British National Interests.
About the time the British would have laid this problem on to the International Body of the League of Nations, the League became irrelevant with the growing militarism of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan.
The British were stuck with administering the British Mandate as WWII overtook them.
Re-enter Grand Mufti al-Husseini who conspired with his Jew-hating favorite kafir Adolf Hitler to exterminate Jews in the British Mandate Palestine.
With American help the British defeated Nazi Germany and thus ended al-Husseini’s dream of Nazi aid to exterminate the Jews. The British were exhausted from two world wars in the same century. If they wanted to ditch the Palestine Mandate prior to WWII, it was a must from war weariness to do so now.
Enter another International Body from the ashes of WWII – the United Nations.
The U.N. devised a Two-State plan that would divide the Palestine Mandate into a Jewish and Arab nation. Transjordan was to be the Arab division and I am guessing the name Palestine was thought to be the name of the Jewish division. The thing is the Jews were going to be somewhat short changed in land with this new division that would make Jerusalem an international city belonging to neither Israel nor the Arabs.
The time came and the British finally said, “We’re outta here.”
The relatively new Arab sovereign nations had warned that when the British left they intended to retake all of Palestine for the Arabs.
The Jews who had been developing a military infrastructure with illegal militias that participated in a tit-for-tat terrorist activity with the Arabs were able to toss enough rivalry to form a united force when Israel declared the name of their nation to Israel in 1948.
Five invading Arab armies and Arab participants from the former Palestine Mandate made their move to drive Israel into the sea. Arabs in the new Israel began to leave out of fear of war between Jews and Arabs. There was even a call to get out so the Arab armies could have their usual version of Muslim bloodlust that followed classical Muslim invaders. Also there was a bit of fear of reprisal from Jews if Arab citizen were caught in the cross fire between Jewish and Arab armies.
These fleeing Arabs became the foundation of the Arab refugees who at first were stranded in land under the authority of Arab Jordan (formerly Transjordan) – West Bank - and Egypt - Gaza.
The invading Armies refused to take in the refugees they caused to exist. Indeed they had a motive for establishing refugee camps and labeling the inhabitants Palestinians. That motive was to have a perpetual excuse to invade Israel when Arabs viewed themselves strong enough to terminate the little sliver of land known as Israel.
With the aid of Jew-hating secularist Arabs and an emerging radical Islam, those Arab refugees were inundated with hate propaganda toward Jews to the point that jihad style martyrdom (i.e. homicidal suicide) became a point of honor for the individual and a source of pride to the martyr’s family.
And now President Barack Hussein Obama, American politicians and State Department employees, European nations and Arab nations that can’t stand to have even a sliver of a dar al-harb in their midst; are demanding a sovereign State of Palestine who do not recognize the right of a Jewish State to exist.
Does that make any sense?
Andrew Whitehead of Anti-CAIR is drumming up support to oppose the insanity of creating a Palestinian State.
JRH 6/1/09
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Why, Jew?
Andrew Whitehead
Email Sent: 05/31/2009 06:21 AM
In Defense Of The Constitution
News & Analysis
May 31, 2009
According to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) world fact book, the State of Israel occupies a total of 20,770 square kilometers which includes 440 sq km of water. To put this in perspective, the entire country of Israel is smaller than the US state of New Jersey.
The total population of Israel is listed as 7,233,701; this includes non-Jewish Arabs whom are Israeli citizens. Israel is 76.4% Jewish with a minority of Muslims (16%), Arab Christians (1.7%) with “other Christians”, Druze, and unspecified making up the remaining religious groupings.
The government of Israel is a parliamentary democracy with a number of factions making up the Knesset, which includes members who are not only anti-Israel, but anti-Semitic as well.
In short, Israel, excepting its parliamentary form of government, is somewhat a microcosm of the United States; a multi-religious society with a participatory government that includes those dedicated to its destruction from within.
The US president is expected to present a “Peace Speech” in Egypt on June 4. President Obama is expected to announce his support for a “settlement of the Jewish question” by calling on Israel to accept the two state “solution” that will make it impossible for Israel to effectively defend itself. To be blunt, Israel is being asked to commit national suicide first by division into indefensible borders and secondly by massive immigration that will destroy the country from within.
Israel, a country occupying a fraction of the Middle East; a country re-born following the Holocaust; a country that makes a home even for those dedicated to its destruction; is being demanded of by the rest of the world to commit national suicide by dividing itself into two; one side that is expected to live with a false promise of peace and the other that is totally dedicated to destroying the other by any means necessary. Israel must win every war; her numerous enemies only one.
We shall not have peace by any division of Israel; nor will we “solve the Jewish question” by partnering with countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, or any other Muslim-majority country in the Middle East. History has proven, time and time again, that political agreements with Muslim-majority countries are not worth the paper they are printed on and that all “agreements” are viewed by Muslim-majority governments as concessions to their religious ideology.
Let us ask the Saudi’s, the Syrians, and the rest of the Muslim world why they accept the presence of refugee camps housing multi-generations of Palestinians; why they refuse to take these refugee’s or provide them any meaningful assistance? Are not the Palestinians their Muslim brothers and sisters? Why do these Muslim countries turn their back on their brethren and demand of the Jews to destroy their country to accommodate those who have absolutely NO RIGHT to Israel?
The next time someone says “Why, Jew?” when the question of Israel arises, turn your back on him. For an American to pose such a question; given our own history with tyranny at our founding; clearly demonstrates a lack of appreciation for our own freedoms, it would be impossible for such a person to understand other people’s right to the same.
President Obama may get his wish for what could lead to the destruction of Israel; but this would only show the world, again, that the United States stands for what is expedient, not for what is right. How many of our allies will continue to trust us if we turn our backs on Israel?
As for me, I stand for a united Israel…from the river to the sea.
Andrew Whitehead
Director
Anti-CAIR
ajwhitehead@anti-cair-net.org
www.anti-cair-net.org
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Please read the following for a way to let the White House know how you feel about the presidents “peace” trip to Cairo.
The Unity Coalition for Israel offers you the opportunity to reply to President Obama in opposition to US policy in respect to the establishment of a new Palestinian State within Israeli borders, commonly referred to as "the Two State Solution." Your letter also will request that our President demand that the Palestinian Authority and the Arab League recognize Israel as a Jewish State.
The main feature of this Urgent Action Alert is a summary of Israel’s right to the land, found in the United States Congressional Record, dated June 30, 1922, and adopted unanimously by the House of Representatives. It succinctly and beautifully states the compelling reasons for a national home for the Jewish people presented as House Resolution 360. It outlines the geographical boundaries as well as the pragmatic and legal imperative for the State of Israel.
You will be asking that President Obama include in his thinking the opinions of those legislators who played an important role in founding the nation of Israel.
With one click, you can send your letter automatically (as shown below) or change the introduction in any way you wish. Simply add your own comments. Unchanged, your letter will be sent as follows and will go to President Barack Obama with copies to the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, the President’s Cabinet, and to select Members of Congress and the Knesset.
Please click on this link to send your letter: http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/aa/alert.php
Your letter will read as follows:
Dear President Obama,Before putting together the final touches on your anticipated “Peace Speech” expected to be delivered in Egypt on June 4, 2009, I request of you a moment or two, to read what your fellow legislators had to say in the year 1922.
The issue at the time was in respect to the recreation of the Jewish National Home - in the area designated for them by the “Mandate for Palestine," an historical League of Nations document referencing the Jewish legal right to settle anywhere in western Palestine, the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, an entitlement unaltered in international law.
Mr. President, there has always been a Jewish presence in the land and reducing any land already granted to the Jewish people under international law is an injustice and a grievous handicap to the well-being of the Jewish State.
The Congressional Resolution follows:
The United States Congressional Record
1922 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
National Home for
THE JEWISH PEOPLE JUNE 30, 1922
HOUSE RESOLUTION 360 - UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED
“Palestine of today, the land we now know as Palestine, was peopled by the Jews from the dawn of history until the Roman era. It is the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people. They were driven from it by force by the relentless Roman military machine and for centuries prevented from returning. At different periods various alien people succeeded them but the Jewish race had left an indelible impress upon the land.
“Today it is a Jewish country. Every name, every landmark, every monument and every trace of whatever civilization remaining there is still Jewish. And it has ever since remained a hope, a longing, as expressed in their prayers for these nearly 2,000 years. No other people has ever claimed Palestine as their national home. No other people has ever shown an aptitude or indicated a genuine desire to make it their homeland. The land has been ruled by foreigners. Only since the beginning of the modern Zionist effort may it be said that a creative, cultural, and economic force has entered Palestine. The Jewish Nation was forced from its natural home. It did not go because it wanted to.
“A perusal of Jewish history, a reading of Josephus, will convince the most skeptical that the grandest fight that was ever put up against an enemy was put up by the Jew. He never thought of leaving Palestine. But he was driven out. But did he, when driven out, give up his hope of getting back? Jewish history and Jewish literature give the answer to the question. The Jew even has a fast day devoted to the day of destruction of the Jewish homeland.
“Never throughout history did they give up hope of returning there. I am told that 90 per cent of the Jews today are praying for the return of the Jewish people to its own home. The best minds among them believe in the necessity of reestablishing their Jewish land. To my mind there is something prophetic in the fact that during the ages no other nation has taken over Palestine and held it in the sense of a homeland; and there is something providential in the fact that for 1,800 years it has remained in desolation as if waiting for the return of the people."
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For Israel to make further land concessions for any reason is contrary to the original sentiments of the US Congress. Legally, the State of Israel is mandated and exists. We hope you will acknowledge this affirmation of Israel. We also hope that you will insist that the Palestinian Authority and the Arab League abide by this unanimous judgment of our forefathers recognizing Israel as a Jewish State, beginning with your forthcoming speech in Egypt on June 4th, and continuing throughout future policy statements.
