While I haven’t been writing as much as I have wanted, I’m still surfing, and the dastardly attack by Hamas on Israel has taken the oxygen out of the blogosphere’s room. And, post-attack, Hamas and the Palestinians are trying to make the progressive case for Critical Race Theory – that the Hamas attackers are really just the victims.
Instead of being branded as the oppressors as history has shown us and the Israelis as the victims (which is certainly the case the last few weeks now), Hamas and the Palestinians are “the people of color,” and ALL Israelis have suddenly become “Whites” – thus fulfilling the racist philosophy of CRT’s parameters.
And our Education system is complicit in all this by not teaching us any history of the last 70 years, and certainly, our Leftist Mainstream media is one-sided. To wit: how fast did they move from “Hamas killed Israelis and tortured them” to believing the Hamas propaganda that it was an Israeli air strike that brought down a hospital with 500 deaths? Worldwide, the media pounced on that – only having to slowly walk away when daylight came, and the building was still intact ‘cept for a few broken windows. Never a thought was given by the media “Er, how did the Palestinians get the 500 dead number within an hour if the hospital WAS in rubble? What was the count: 1…2…3…4…500?”.
So like my other Stack of Stuff on Government Schools (which we can’t trust either on Transgenderism/Childism), I’ll put up some facts as I run across them.
- So, how did the Palestinians become victims? Via an American Public Relations firm
And now comes the seed that leads to the current support from the left of “Palestine.” In the early 1960s, the Arab coalition was not only physically losing wars, but was considered bullies of Israel in worldwide media. They were the Goliath that kept losing to David. So they hired the public relations firm of Dudley-Anderson-Yutzy in New York (founded in 1909, no longer in business) to change their image in the world. George Anderson told them they needed a “victim,” a group that would be perceived as smaller and even more abused than the Israelis, and the Palestinian cause was born.
Like I said in the headline, it’s an actual public relations scam. The rich “Palestinian” history that the perpetually aggrieved American protester class thinks is being fought for is a work of creative fiction. It’s an even easier sell to the American Left today, given that they spent all of 2020 convincing themselves that Joe Biden was a thoughtful centrist who would bring some class to the White House.
- And that trope that Hamas are not the same as the regular Palestinian civilians. Well, the latter put the former into power and have kept them there for almost 20 years:
As for Gaza? In 2005, the Israelis, in their eternal quest for peace, gave self-governance to the people of Gaza. In 2007, the people of Gaza elected Hamas as their leadership by over 90%, and they have reelected and kept Hamas in power for these 16 years. Please do not cry for a distinction between the citizens of Gaza and Hamas, for Hamas was and has been elected by the people of Gaza for almost two decades. They’ve made their gullibility a cornerstone of their politics.
- Israel is NOT “apartheid” (emphasis mine):
The only thing that’s lacking from the left’s scenario is any actual apartheid. The term “apartheid” comes from South Africa, where it referred to a system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination that was in place from 1948 to 1991. The word itself means “separateness,” and South Africa instituted numerous laws to keep the races apart in schools, workplaces, and areas where the public gathered, such as beaches.
There is absolutely nothing like this in Israel. As my Jihad Watch colleague Hugh Fitzgerald has explained: “In Israel, Arabs sit on the Supreme Court, serve in the Knesset, go abroad as ambassadors. The chairman of Israel’s largest bank, Bank Leumi, is an Arab. Jews and Arabs work in the same factories and offices, play on the same sports teams and in the same orchestras, act in the same films, are treated in the same hospitals by both Jewish and Arab medical personnel, attend the same classes in the same universities. Jews and Arabs own restaurants and start high-tech businesses together. The only difference in their treatment is that Jews must, while Arabs may, serve in the military.”
- And a longer history of that area of the Middle East – one that the Islamic militants of Hamas, Iran, et al never want you to remember or learn if you never have:
Let us start with a brief history lesson. Despite what the media has been preaching for almost 60 years, there is no historical Palestinian state or people. Over 4,000 years ago, there were small tribes living in Canaan, such as Moabites, Amalekites, etc. There was no Palestine of people or land. Then around 3,200 years ago, the 12 tribes of Israel, united under King Saul into the first kingdom in the region, a Jewish theocracy called “Israel.” That split into the kingdoms of Judah and Israel (both Jewish), which were conquered by the Babylonian empire a little over 2,500 years ago. This became the Persian Empire, which was defeated by Alexander the Great, and Israel was controlled by the Greeks.
The Greeks were defeated by the Hasmoneans, and Israel once again became a Jewish state about 2,200 years ago. The Hasmoneans were beaten by the Romans, and there followed a series of kingdoms that controlled Israel: Byzantine, Sassanid, Ummayad, Frankish, Christian, and eventually the Mamluk Dynasty, which controlled the region in the 13th-16th centuries. This is the first time there is a governmental Muslim presence in Israel, but again, it is not related to Palestine as a people or nation at all. The Mamluks ultimately were absorbed into the Ottoman Empire, which controlled the region until it was defeated by the British in the 20th century. Nowhere in this 3,000-year history does Palestine or Palestinians exist or even get discussed. The British created a mandate called “Palestine” on July 24, 1922, which was the first mention of the word in thousands of years.
For over 3,000 years, there has been no such thing as a Palestinian or a country of Palestine! So how did this Palestinian issue even start in modern times? In 1948, U.N. Resolution 181 granted statehood to two states: a Jewish one called Israel and an Arab one called Palestine. This is the first time there is a nation or people with the name of Palestine, even though they were in fact all Jordanians. Immediately, five Arab nations attacked Israel, which continued to be attacked repeatedly for the next 15 years but successfully defended her nationhood.
…At Anderson’s advice, the Palestinian Liberation Organization was established on May 28, 1964. This is the start date of the “Palestinian cause”: 1964. After the 1967 war, when Israel kept Gaza, the Sinai, the Golan Heights, and the West Bank, the concept of the Palestinians as victims became more popular.
- And with the “impending” wiping out of Hamas by the Israeli IDF, what does the Hamas Leadership want to do? Ayup, make more dead people in Gaza to proclaim they are the victims:
