NC Reminds: “. . . God of Heaven Himself will prosper us; therefore we His servants will arise and build, but you have no heritage or right or memorial in Jerusalem.” ~Nehemiah 2: 19-20
(United Nauseating Nations)
by Gerald A. Honigman
With Chains for Everyone
No sooner was Israel reborn in the wake of the Holocaust in May 1948 as a result (on the human part of the deal, at least) of a United Nations’ vote, it was attacked by a half dozen Arab nations–most of which had gained their own independence only recently as well. From that moment on, with a few (but important) rare exceptions, the U.N. would work to basically try to undo its “mistake” of permitting the resurrection of the Jew of the Nations.
Can’t help it…visions of the Hebrew Prophets pour though my mind. Some excerpts from Ezekiel 37:
The hand of the Lord was upon me… set me down in the midst of the valley full of bones…. very many… and, lo, they were very dry.
And He said unto me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord God, thou knowest.”
Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; ‘Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: And I will lay sinews upon you, bring flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you.’ “
So I prophesied… there was a noise…shaking, and the bones came together, bone to bone… sinews and flesh came up upon them, and skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
Then said He unto me, “Prophesy unto the wind, Son of man, and say to the wind, ‘Thus saith the Lord God: ‘Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.’ “
So I prophesied… and the breath came into them, they lived, and stood up upon their feet….
Then He said unto me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost….Therefore prophesy and say, ‘Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O My people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel….’ “
Whoa…! Heavy stuff…I still get goose bumps..
Written some twenty-six centuries or so ago, if this wasn’t the resurrected phoenix of the Jews–Israel–then I’m Michelangelo.
And when Jews from the remote corners of the “Arab” world–where they also didn’t know what the morrow would bring and were commonly known as yahud kelb/Jew Dog killers of prophets–were gathered to be flown to Israel, with tears they recited the Hebrew prophecy predicting that they would return to Israel on the wings of eagles as they boarded the planes used in Operation Magic Carpet.
NC Points Out: This return to Israel is prophesied over and over again in Scripture and is known as the Aliyah.
One of those above 1948 Arab attackers, Transjordan, became independent two years earlier. Its army was led by British officers and, like Egypt’s, was well equipped with Allied armaments left in the region after World War II.
Since the Emirate’s own story is crucial for understanding attempts made to try to balance conflicting Arab and Jewish claims over that part of the Turks’ previous empire which emerged as the Mandate of Palestine after World War I, I frequently reference this in my work. Arabs bring up their tale of how Jews allegedly stole all of the land over and over again; hence my own need to repeatedly remind readers of the truth as well.
Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill convened the Cairo Conference in 1921. As a result of this and other machinations of the latest empire (the Brits’) to acquire the land of the Jews–Judaea–since the fall of the latter to Hadrian’s Roman armies in 135 C.E., Britain’s Hashemite Arab allies were awarded all of the original 1920 Mandate of Palestine east of the Jordan River–almost 80% of the total area–in 1922.
Transjordan’s King Abdullah attributed this gift to an act of Allah in his memoirs. Along with other observers, Sir Alec Kirkbride, the Brits’ East Bank (of the Jordan River) rep, had much to say about this as well in A Crackle Of Thorns.
Not long afterwards, Abdullah’s brother, Emir Faisal, was gifted with all of the Mandate of Mesopotamia–renamed Iraq. Millions of Kurds thus saw their own best chance at independence shattered on behalf of Arab nationalism and British Petroleum politics as well.
The Ottoman Turkish Empire had ruled most of the region for the previous four centuries. Most of those above invading and other “Arab” states had, in turn, become Arab by the conquest, subjugation, and forced Arabization of millions of native peoples who survived earlier jihads in the wars of the Dar ul-Islam against the Dar al-Harb…another point I feel a need to stress repeatedly.
Similar stories could be told all over the region…millions of native, non-Arab peoples, within the power vacuum created by the collapse of empire, seeing their own hopes for freedom and independence in the new nationaist age swept away on behalf of the Arab Nation. Some later fought alongside Arabs against the Mandatory Powers…did them little good after the French and the British left the scene (one way or the other), however.
From Egypt, through North Africa into the Sudan, to Lebanon, Iraqi and Syrian Kurdistan, and elsewhere, scores of millions have all been forced to consent to this forced Arabization process.
As Egypt’s most famous native “Uncle Tom” Copt, the late President Sadat’s Foreign Minister Dr. Boutros Boutros Ghali basically summed it up for Israel (as well as all others) in an interview with an Israeli author: if you want to be accepted in the neighborhood, you have to consent to Arabization.
The post-1922 up to the current fight, therefore, has been to create a second state for Arabs in what’s left of “Palestine”–not a first…the Arabs’ 22nd in total spread out across over six million square miles of territory. And that state is expected, by “moderates” willing to tell the West what it wants to hear, as well as the more honest Hamas types, to replace the sole state of the Jews–not live peacefully along side it.
Back to the United Nations…
In 1947, another partition plan was presented which would have divided the roughly 20% of the Mandate of Palestine left after the creation of Transjordan in half between Jews and Arabs.
Had Arabs accepted this, they would have wound up with some 90% of the total original area.
They rejected this offer on the grounds that all was part of the Dar ul-Islam and/or their “purely Arab patrimony.” The rest is history.
Some things change, others never do. Israel’s fight with Hamas, Fatah, and others today is the same as it was back then.
Back to May, 1948…
The U.N. watched its newest child brutally attacked upon birth. It did nothing to stop the onslaught and only finally stepped in after the Jews turned the tide of the battle.
Afraid that they would push the Arabs back even further and take more of the non-apportioned territory of the Mandate, the U.N. finally acted. Keep in mind that, unlike Arab claims, these were not “purely Arab” territories.
The armistice lines drawn up by the UN. in 1949 simply marked the point where hostilities were stopped.
Amongst other things, they left Israel a mere 9-miles wide in some places, and not much more in its strategic waist–where most of its population and industry are located. Many peole travel farther than that just to go to work. It should not be a surprise, therefore, that these became known as the Auschwitz Lines–a constant invitation to Arabs to attack. The lines were never expected to be Israel’s real borders, as America’s own U.N. rep, Dr.Ralph Bunche, wrote about himself.
Recall that as a result of the 1948 Arab assault, Transjordan grabbed the non-apportioned west bank of the Jordan River (where both Jews and Arabs had roots, owned land, and were allowed to live). Now holding both banks, it changed its name to Jordan (since it now held territory from other parts of the Mandate besides those across the river)–and made all the land it now held Judenrein (Jew free)–including east Jerusalem. Numerous age-old synagogues were destroyed, ancient Jewish tombstones were used to pave roads, build latrines, and so forth. Only two nations recognized that illegal seizure.
While Jordan thus emerged above, Pharaoh–who had used Gaza to invade the land of the Jews for thousands of years–once again grabbed that coastal strip.
Note that during the time Jordan and Egypt held Gaza and the West Bank (aka, Judea and Samaria, its real name)–almost two decades–no one demanded the birth of the Arabs’ second state in Palestine in those areas. Not a peep from the United Nations either…
As another result of the Arab attempt to nip a microscopic, resurrected Israel in the bud, two refugee situations were created…another point that needs to constantly be reemphasized.
The Arabs have continued to this day to thrust the plight of their own refugees–created primariliy as a result of their own actions–into everyone else’s faces–people who were pawns (willingly or unwillingly) of the Arabs’ own murderous schemes that backfired. Scores of millions of non-Arab peoples also became refugees as a result of wars over the last century. Yet the folks who have received the most aid have been the biggest whiners.
Arab refugees, right from the start, were made virtual wards of the world–unlike all the others above. The United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA)–whose spokemen, right now, are villifying Israel over Gaza–was created just to cater to these folks–most of whom were newcomers themselves coming into the land because of its economic development by the Jews.
The U.N.’s predecessor, the League Of Nations Permanent Mandates Commission, recorded numerous Arabs crossing into the Mandate from the surrounding Arab states. Many more slipped in through very porous borders under cover of darkness and were never recorded. And still many others arrived with Muhammad Ali and son Ibrahim Pasha’s armies from Egypt about fifty years or so earlier and never left…all alleged “native Palestinians.” Hamas’s virtual patron saint (for whom those rockets Gaza has been blasting Israel with are named as well as Hamas’s “militant wing”), Sheikh Izzedin al-Qassam, was from Latakia, Syria. Arafat was born in Cairo.
Indeed, so many Arabs were recent arrivals themselves into the Palestinian Mandate that UNRWA had to adjust the very definition of “refugee” from its prior meaning of persons normally and traditionally resident to those who lived in the Mandate for a minimum of only two years prior to 1948.
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