The Final Twist of the Knife
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| Thousands of Jews praying at the the holiest site in Judaism, the Western Wall, which president Obama just deemed to be illegally occupied. |
Friday at the United Nations, with no election to campaign for, Barack Obama was free to show his true colors. On the same day he was lighting a menorah at the White House in his last act of false friendship with the Jewish people, he was simultaneously attempting to destroy the Jewish state. By not vetoing a UN Security Council resolution that shamefully condemned Israel and decreed Jewish presence in East Jerusalem (including the Western Wall, the Temple Mount, and the Jewish Quarter of the Old City) to be illegal, Mr. Obama took his revenge against Benjamin Netanyahu for not bowing before Obama’s cult of personality.
The resolution took the position that the holiest places in
Judaism should be under Palestinian sovereignty, and that Jews have no claim to
the area. The Western Wall refers to a
part of King Herod’s Temple, the only wall still standing after the Romans
destroyed the temple, sacked Jerusalem, killed hundreds of thousands of Jews,
and exiled the survivors in 70 BCE. For
almost 2000 years, between the Roman destruction of the temple and the Six Day
War in 1967, Jews have been
actively trying to take back dominion over their homeland, which president
Obama has now shamefully stated is not Jewish at all.
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| Liberation of the Old City of Jerusalem in 1967 by Israeli paratroopers. |
Pre-1948 History
Due in large part to the World War I efforts made by the
brilliant British Jewish scientist Chaim Weizmann, and the bravery shown by
Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky and his Zion Mule Corps (who fought
alongside the British in WWI), Britain supported a Jewish national home
in the land then called Palestine. The term Palestine generally referred to the area between
southern Syria and Egypt, and was popularized by the Romans as a way of
disconnecting the land (in Hebrew called Judea) from the Jews after successive
Jewish revolts. Before the victory of
Britain, the U.S., and France in WWI, the land of Palestine had been part of
the Ottoman Empire; it was most certainly not an independent nation.
After WWI, the British established the
British Mandate of Palestine, which was to serve as the national homeland for
the Jewish people. However, being
British, and thus generally anti-Semitic and untrustworthy (read about the
White Paper and how the British refused to let hundreds of thousands of Jews
escaping the Holocaust land in Palestine so as to not offend the Arabs), the offer of the British Mandate of
Palestine was shrunken, with a new Arab state to be carved out. The Jews, desperate for a homeland after 6
million were murdered, accepted even this smaller Jewish state, while the
Arabs, of course, turned it down. When the
UN formally recognized Israel, the Arab states surrounding Israel attacked
simultaneously, in hopes of finishing the genocide that Hitler started. It is no coincidence that the leader of the
Arabs of Palestine at the time, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, spent the World War II
years in Germany asking Hitler to bring the Final Solution to the Arab world.
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| The leader of the Arabs of Jerusalem asked Hitler to expand his genocide against the Jews, this time in Arab lands. |
The Jews were not the only group to whom Britain owed a
favor in the aftermath of WWI. The
Bedouins of Hejaz (an area in present-day Saudi Arabia), led by Emir Abdullah,
also helped the British defeat the Ottomans.
As a reward, Winston Churchill created a state called Transjordan on the
east bank of the Jordan River.
Transjordan bordered the British Mandate of Palestine, which was
supposed to be the Jewish state. During
the Israeli War of Independence, the Jordanians occupied East Jerusalem and the West
Bank, which were previously under international control.
Post-1948 History
The peace terms between Jordan and Israel at the conclusion
of the War of Independence constitute what are commonly called the “pre-1967
borders”, which is a reference to the 1949
armistice lines between Israel and Jordan.
A Palestinian state is not referenced anywhere in the armistice
agreement, mostly because no such thing existed. Friday’s UN resolution speaks of the
territory that Israel occupied in 1967, as if it were part of a Palestinian
country, and not territory that Jordan had illegally occupied. In effect, the resolution says that Israel
must give back territory which it won in a defensive war, from a country that
was occupying the land illegally, to a country that never before existed. Unreal.
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| Jordanian troops forced Jews to flee the Old City of Jerusalem in 1948 when Jordan occupied the city. |
After the Israeli War of Independence, Jordan occupied East
Jerusalem and the West Bank, and remained in control until the liberation of
Jerusalem in 1967. In the 1948 war, Jordan
expelled all the Jews from East Jerusalem, destroyed 34 of 35 synagogues in
the Old City of Jerusalem, desecrated Jewish graves, and did not allow Jews to
pray at the Wall. This is the situation that president Obama’s
vote clearly supports. His non-veto is
nothing less than a blanket denial of the right of Jews to have dominion over
their homeland, and support for ethnic cleansing of Jews.
What the Resolution
Means
If one were to discuss Israel and Palestine with a college student,
he or she would know literally nothing about the history other than “Israel is
bad!” It is probable that the
aforementioned safe-space dweller would not know that Jews in Israel in the 20th
century were called Palestinians (and the territory of Palestine had
a Jewish star on its flag before the State of Israel was reborn), would not
know of the occupation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank by the Jordanians
from 1948-1967, certainly would not know about the almost 1,000,000 Jews whom
the Arab countries expelled, would not know of the 3000 year continuous
presence of Jews in Jerusalem, despite multiple expulsions, and would not know
that there was never, in recorded history, a Palestinian state.
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| Another Jew illegally in Jerusalem and the West Bank |
By the terms of this
resolution, Jesus was an illegal settler, as was any other Jew who built a
house in Samaria or the eastern part of Jerusalem. I expect this kind of ridiculous
anti-Semitism from the fanatics and dictators of the Islamic world, the
nonaligned countries in need of oil, and from the European appeasers who think
that being anti-Israel will keep the jihadists from killing scores of European
civilians. Of America, however, I have
higher standards. I believe that the
American people share my disgust with Obama’s attempt to turn our country into
a poor imitation of a European nation; during his eight years in office, the
Democratic party has lost 12 governorships, 9 Senate seats, 62 seats in the
House, and more than 900 local legislative seats.
Mr. Obama is attempting to sever the 3000-year-old link
between Jews and Jerusalem; he is in effect doing the bidding of the fanatical
Gulf States, both Iran and the Arab ones.
This resolution was everything that Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Qaida, the
Saudis, and the Islamic Republic of Iran have ever wanted.
According to the Wall
Street Journal, Mr. Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry alerted the
Palestinian delegation ahead of time of their willingness to abstain on the
resolution, in effect colluding to screw Israel. While it is hard to know exactly what the
damage will be from this resolution, the relationships between the US, the UN,
and Israel will be forever changed by this treachery.
Liberal American Jews have been living in a cocoon of
naiveté for decades; they are so comfortable here that they have forgotten that
America is constantly changing, and is not immune to anti-Semitism. America’s changing demographics, the
radicalization of campuses, the banishment of conservative professors off of
college campuses, the unchallenged racial prism that dominates American
political discourse, the sky-high intermarriage rates among American Jews, and
Israel’s continuing decision to both accept billions in American military aid
and build settlements in the West Bank have led us to this point. If American Jews don’t wake up now, they
never will.
