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Holocaust and Redemption

by Mati Alon

410 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #03-0727; ISBN 1-4120-0358-X; US$40.00, C$51.00, EUR33.15, £22.97

A concise history of the Hebrews stressing most strongly on the 100-year Arab-Israeli conflict.

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About the Book Living 2000 years in exile the Hebrews had a 2000-year DREAM to return to their Promised Land. The MIRACLE happened in 1948 when the State of Israel was founded. Not yet the Third Temple, the DREAM period was full of anguish, tears and blood: the Spanish Inquisition, the Holocaust in Europe, Anti-Semitism, etc. The MIRACLE period was also, is also, full of anguish, tears and blood: Fighting five Arab nations, very well equipped, without arms, with a Western World arms embargo against Israel. Then the SIX-DAY War in 1967 when Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack against Israel. This was followed with the constant terror attacks, the Intifadah, mainly against Israeli civilians.

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About the Author Born and raised in Haifa, Israel, a city with a substantial Arab population, the Arabs were his next door neighbors. He learned their language, their customs and their mentality which allowed him to write this authoritative study. Mati Alon was a soldier during the Israeli War of Independence in 1948. He later graduated from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) with B.S., M.S., and P.E. degrees in Mechanical Engineering. Mr. Alon taught at the Technion then moved to the United States, where he took Graduate courses in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at he Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago.

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Excerpts

Excerpt One

Insecurity has been a principal feature of the Jewish experience in many lands. The full chronology of persecution, massacre and expulsion is too long. The massacre of Jews in Worms, Germany (1096), the Clifford Tower in York, England (1190), the Spanish Inquisition (1492), the German Holocaust (1940 - 1945). The Arab Intifadah, and the Arab Terror (the Twin Towers in New York, 9/11/2001), are only the major events.

Excerpt Two

"Major reasons of a social, humanitarian and religious nature require the creation of two homelands for minorities- a Christian home in the Lebanon as there has always been, and a Jewish home in Palestine...

"The neighborly relations between these two nations will contribute to the maintenance of peace in the Near East which is so divided by rivalries and will lessen the persecution of minorities, who will always find refuge in these two countries....

"The Lebanon demands freedom for the Jews in Palestine- as it desires its own freedom and independence."

IGNATIUS MOUBARAK,
The Maronite Religious leader, Archbishop of Beirut,
in his secret testimony to the UNSCOP,
in August 1947

Excerpt Three

The Arab residents of Eretz Israel or Palestine were reluctant to adopt the name of "Palestinians", as it described Jews and preferred to be called "Arabs."

Even before the Balfour Declaration in 1917, Arab nationalists protested against the use of the name "Palestine" or "Palestinian" to distinguish them from the other Arab-speaking peoples in the area. All the nationalist Arab movements, since 1880, insisted on the "unity of Syria" including the geographical entity called Palestine or Eretz Israel.

Palestine was always considered by the Arabs as part of Syria and never a separate entity.

Thus, in the book "The Arab Awakening" written by the Arab historian George Antonius, published in 1939, the author writes: "Except where otherwise specified, the term Syria will be used to denote the whole of the country of that name which is now split up into mandated territories of French Syria and Lebanon and British Palestine and Transjordan."

Appearing before the League of Nations Permanent Mandates Commission over recommendations in the 1937 Royal (Peel) Commission Report to transfer 225,000 Arabs from the intended Jewish State, British Colonial Secretary W. Ormsby-Gore asserted: "These people (the Arabs) had not hitherto regarded themselves as Palestinian, but as part of Syria as a whole, as part of the Arab world."

In 1946, Prof. Philip Hitti, the distinguished Arab historian of Princeton University, declared before the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry: "There is not such thing as Palestine in Arab history, absolutely not."

Hitti's view was endorsed by Prof. John Hazam, who said:

"There was never any Palestine question, not even any Palestine as a political or geographic entity."

Arab representatives reminded the UN, in 1947, that "Palestine was part of the province of Syria—the Arabs of Palestine were not independent in the sense of forming a separate political entity."

Eight years after the establishment of the State of Israel, in 1956, Ahmed Shukeiry, speaking for the so-called Palestinian government-in-exile, based in Gaza, told the UN General Assembly: "It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but Southern Syria."Neither Ahmed Shukeiry nor anyone else suggested, during the 19 years, from 1948 to 1967, that Jordan occupied Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip (which was re-named "the West Bank"), that the 539,000 registered Arab refugees constituted a separate "Palestinian" entity, entitled to self-determination—let alone a separate state.

Therefore, taking all this into account, how is it possible that, less than two generations ago, the name "Palestinian" which was associated with the Jews and a Jewish homeland has suddenly become to mean an Arab country "stolen" by the Jews?

The secret was revealed by Zuhair Mohsen, late head of the Military Department of the PLO, who, in an interview with the Dutch daily Trouw, on March 1977, explained: "There is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. It is for political reasons only that we carefully emphasize our Palestinian identity, because it is in the national interest of the Arabs to encourage the existence of Palestinians against Zionism, the establishment of a Palestinian state is a new expedient to continue the fight against Zionism and for Arab unity."

Zuhair Mohsen is further quoted as saying:

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which has defined borders, cannot claim Haifa or Jaffa; but a Palestinian can claim Haifa, Jaffa, Beersheba and Jerusalem."

It is therefore clear that the "Palestinian Problem"—as distinct from the Arab refugee problem—is a fantasy skillfully and assiduously developed as a powerful propaganda weapon by the Arabs, to promote the myth that there is a land of Palestine which has, "from time immemorial," been the homeland of a Palestinian people, the rightful owners of the land, who have been dispossessed by "invading Zionists."

The "Arab problem" later called also the "Palestinian problem", is, therefore, nothing but a propaganda lie derived from a constant systematic brainwash by the Arab leaders, with the help of the British and later of the Soviet Union and its satellites. Since 1922, there was an Arab "homeland" in the eastern Land of Israel, or rather, Eretz Israel.

The East Bank, "Transjordan" and later also called "Jordan" is nothing but three-quarters of the territory of "Greater" Israel or biblical Israel, stolen from the Jews by the British and given to the Arabs or Palestinian Arabs, with the endorsement of the United States of America and the international community.

Therefore, all those born on both banks of the Jordan river are Palestinian Arabs with Jordanian citizenship, and they have already a "homeland" which is Jordan, and what they are after now, is, to take another piece from the Jews, at the expense of the Jews, and form another "Palestinian" state.

After its creation, and many years later, Jordan was an artificial British puppet, run by the British governor Glubb Pasha, who commanded the Arab Legion of Transjordan. Brigadier Glubb was a British officer.

The lie of the "right of the Palestinians" must be exposed. The truth of the matter is that Jordan was and is the land designed by the British as a "homeland" for the Arabs or Palestinian Arabs, at the expense of the Jews. The Jews have lost an overwhelming part of their land to satisfy the Arabs and the British interests in the Middle East. And what the Arabs are after now, is, the establishment of a second Palestinian state, in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Again at the expense of the Jews.

Excerpt Four

The historical bond between the Jews and their country, flourishing deserts, drying its swamps, reviving of the old Hebrew Language, building towns and villages only strengthened the UN Assembly's determination on November 1947, to restore the Jewish Homeland, lost 2,000 years ago. And this, in spite of the fact that when the UN Declaration was made, only 600,000 Jews lived in Eretz Israel, only six percent of the Jews in the world.

Except for the Arabs, few doubted the Jewish historical right over the Holy Land and that the Israelis are the guardians and spokesmen of the country, on behalf of the whole Jewish nation, as far as title and land ownership is concerned. Because, they are the ones that will have to face the wars and risk their lives as a result of the need to defend it.

The State of Israel was established, mainly, because of restriction on freedom of Jewish immigration imposed by the British rulers. When freedom of immigration could not be attained the creation of a state was indispensable.

The concentration camps in Europe were overcrowded with Jews who needed very badly a home. Independence became unavoidable. Aliyah, immigration was Israel's most important national interest, its first priority.

Excerpt Five

In June 1967, the IDF trying to repel an invasion by Egypt, Syria and Jordan, re-conquered and redeemed Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip, large parts of the Jewish ancestral homeland.

The Arabs had defined the natural and legal owners of these territories as "conquerors", and because of Israeli negligence the whole world accepted their terminology.

Unfortunately, the Israelis did not stress strong enough that these lands were theirs from time immemorial, thus exposed the Arabs' greatest lie of the century.

Israel totally neglected the fields of rhetoric, semantics, propaganda and persuasion,. Instead of coming out and declaring firmly that the case was closed they said that "everything was open for negotiation."

In the long run this attitude, this behavior was very wrong and very damaging because the Arabs planned to build their Palestinian state on these Jewish territories.

One of the results of the Six-Day War was Moshe Dayan's "Open Bridge" policy. The "Open Bridge" policy was applied only with Jordan. People and merchandise were allowed to cross the borders between Israel and Jordan.

On the Allenby Bridge millions of Arabs had crossed from Jordan to Israel and from Israel to Jordan, freely, with no restriction. Yet, no Jew could set foot on its Jordanian side. Jordan was a country in which no Jews were allowed to live, and in which selling land to Jews was punishable by death.

The victorious Israeli soldiers of 1967 had become the hated rulers of 1.9 million Arabs. Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip had become the "Occupied Territories."The redeemed Israeli territories had become the center of the world attraction. The Great United States of America and the European Community had become Israeli's unsolicited advisors on what Israel should do with the "spoils of the war."

During the Six-Day War the Israelis were united as never before. After one decade the Israelis were bitterly divided on what it should do with Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip. In a sense, most of Israel's current problems derived from the Six-Day War.

The 1967 Six-Day War completely changed the whole situation. Prior to the Six- Day War, all the Israeli governments had called for peace with the Arab states on the basis of the Armistice Demarcation Lines (the "Green Line"), which marked the de facto borders, but they refused consistently.

"We have often said that the map will never again be as it was on June 4, 1967. For us this is a matter of security and principle. The June map is for us identical with insecurity and danger. I do not exaggerate when I say that it has for us something of a memory of Auschwitz."

Abba Eban, Der Spiegel (No. 5, 1969).

In June 1967, Gen. Earl Wheeler, the chairman of the joint Chiefs of Staff, submitted a memorandum to defense secretary Robert McNamara, stating:

"The present occupied territory, the high ground running generally north— south on the line with Kuneitra, 15 miles (24 km.) inside the Syrian border, would give Israel control of the terrain which Syria has used effectively in harassing the border area."

It was not "colonialism" or imperialism" that brought the Gaza Strip and the West Bank under Israeli rule in 1967, but self-defense against Arab aggression, Arab invasion.

The Hebrews have returned to their land as owners of the land, as landlords, as redeemers and certainly not as conquerors.

After its victory in 1967, the government of Israel made many generous peace offers, but the Arab summit conference in Khartoum, at which the PLO was also represented retorted: "No recognition of Israel, no negotiations with Israel and no peace with Israel."

The Arabs declared that they would stop their intifadah, the slaughter of innocent people, only when "the Israelis put an end to their occupation of our territories." The fact of the matter was that these territories really belonged to the Israelis. The truth was that the Arab invaders were occupying, illegally Israeli land.

From the Holy Bible, Old Testaments, New Testaments, it was clear and evident, to whom, the Good Lord, God, promised the land. The Israelis had owned the Land of Israel, the Holy land, long before the Arabs ever showed up on the surface of the earth,long before the Arabs were invented. What the Israelis did was just to return to themselves what previously had belonged to them.

When the Arabs claimed ownership over the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) they were trying to take away something that never belonged to them. They were trying to steal away the land from its real owners, the Israelis, the Jews. The Israelis, the Jews, had a 4000—year old title over that land.

The Arabs had a rich history of invasions. They had once invaded North Africa, Spain, and Portugal. They reached Vienna, Budapest, Bucharest, etc. Today they were slowly creeping into the US, the UK, France, Germany, Holland, etc.

Proof: the number of mosques in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, etc. has increased substantially during the last decade. They knocked down the Twin Towers in New York and killed 3,000 people. They don't care for human life, for them, human life is cheap.

The Arabs lie when they say that the Land of Israel is theirs. The Arabs lie when they say that the Israelis, the Jews are the conquerors, and they believe that the more they repeat that lie it will eventually become true. A lie never become true. A lie remains a lie.

And with this lie they have nurtured their future generation, their children, from the age of toddlers.

The Jewish people settled in Eretz Israel 4,000 years ago, 2,500 years before the Moslems appeared on the face of the earth. The fact that 2,000 years later the Moslems adopted the Jewish forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as their prophets didn't grant them preferred status in Eretz Israel; nor did the Koran, written thousands years after the Holy Bible, and which never mentioned Jerusalem, give them privileges to Eretz Israel or any part of it.

The Arabs, the Moslems, had later adopted all the other Jewish and Christian prophets. The prophet Muhammad was not enough for them.

Eretz Israel is a Jewish state, has always been so and will always be so, in which Arabs can live in dignity, if they abide by the law. They can, of course, practice religious ritual according to their faith. Israel will never imitate Arafat's "Minister of Religious Affairs" Hassan Tahboub, who recently said, "Jews will not be able to pray on the Temple Mount, the Machpela Cave, Rachel's Tomb or Joseph's Tomb, once these shrines come under Palestinian control."

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