What the Arab-Israeli Conflict is About

What is the Arab-Israeli conflict about? It’s not about land. It’s not about a Palestinian state. It’s not about Palestinian “rights”. It’s not about the fate of Palestinian refugees. It’s about the question of Israel’s existence, as a secure democratic Jewish state. The background of the conflict is about Israel’s effort to survive from all these genocidal Nazi-like fascists. It’s about the survival of the Jewish majority. This is a conflict for Israel’s soul and the well-being of the Israeli Jewish majority. The Arab-Israeli conflict is a struggle between barbarism and civilization. For Israel’s enemies represent Nazi-like barbarism who seek to impose tyranny. Israel is in the front lines fighting for civilization, democracy and freedom. Israel’s destruction is a huge blow to the civilized world.

The fate of the West Bank and Gaza [Israel left Gaza in 2005, but let that pass], the well-being of Palestinian civilians and the fate of the refugees are issues, but nowhere near the root cause. The root cause is the Nazi-like genocidal aggression against Israel with the goal of eliminating Israel. As a Jew, I stand by Israel all the way to the end. There was fighting between Jews who sought to establish a democratic Jewish state and Arabs who sought to impose tyranny in the Middle East even before the first Arab refugee fled.

As for a Palestinian state, the Arab leadership, as well as the Arab states rejected all the partition plans including the 1937 Peel commission partition by Great Britain and the 1947 partition plan by the UN. Both would’ve created an Arab state [the Arabs in the region then weren’t called Palestinians, for the name Palestine was more related to the Jews who sought to set up a safe haven]. The 1937 plan would’ve given the Arabs most of the land and the partition plan would’ve given them half of it. Plus the Arabs and Muslims already had 99.9% of the Middle East [even today it’s still true] and Jordan was created on 80% of the land promised to the Jews by the Balfour declaration and the League of Nations.

After the 1948 war, in which the Nazi Arab leadership and the Arab states failed in their “war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades” [Azzam Pasha, Secretary-General of the Arab League on what the 1948 war would be], Jordan annexed the West Bank and east Jerusalem while Egypt conquered Gaza.

There was no call, not from the Arab inhabitants in those areas nor from the Nazi-like terrorist groups nor from the Arab states for Jordan and Egypt to create an Arab state in those areas. Not even the international community called on Jordan and Egypt to create an Arab state in the West Bank and Gaza. Article 24 of the 1964 PLO charter said:

This Organization does not exercise any territorial sovereignty over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, on the Gaza Strip or in the Himmah Area. Its activities will be on the national popular level in the liberational, organizational, political and financial fields.

In fact, an Arab state never existed in any part of the holy land. Never in history was there ever an independent state called Palestine. It was  region named Palestinia [Latin word for Palestine] by the Romans to insult the Jews by naming it after one of the Jews’ ancient enemies the Philistines. The name stayed the same, even after it turned to the Byzantine empire, and even after the Muslims took it, and as it lived under different caliphates, except for when it was under the crusades, and then when Britain took it. The name stayed the same. Arab nationalists and Islamists don’t seek a Palestinian state. It contradicts their goals. Islamists seek to impose their backward uncivilized totalitarian form of Islam on the world, while Arab nationalists seek to impose a totalitarian Arab state on all of the Arab world and Israel proper. Israel won the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza from the Egyptians and Jordanians [as well as the Golan Heights from Syria]. Egypt and Jordan were not even willing to give up the territories they won in their genocidal aggression against the Jewish state. The invading Arab states sought to eliminate Israel, start a huge bloodbath on Israeli Jews, and take whatever they could, not to establish an independent Arab state called “Palestine.”

 It was only after Israel’s victory against totalitarian Nazified aggression that the Palestinians discovered their lost identity. It became a card used in the propaganda war against Israel.

Walid Shoebat, a former PLO terrorist, said:

Why is it that on June 4th 1967 I was a Jordanian and overnight I became a Palestinian?

Zuhair Muhsin, military commander of the PLO, who was also a member of the PLO Executive Force, said:

There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity… yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel.

Hafez Assad told Arafat:

You do not represent Palestine as much as we do. Never forget this one point: There is no such thing as a Palestinian people, there is no Palestinian entity, there is only Syria. You are an integral part of the Syrian people, Palestine is an integral part of Syria. Therefore it is we, the Syrian authorities, who are the true representatives of the Palestinian people.

Syria had [and has] expansionist ambitions in the Middle East. Syria occupied Lebanon and claims that Lebanon is part of the “Greater Syria.” Syria seeks Israel’s elimination and to take over at least much of the Middle East. Of course a Palestinian state is contrary to Syria’s aggressive ambitions. Israel is the only one willing to have a Palestinian state in the territories, just in exchange for peace and security. If it’s caused by a Palestinian state, then all terror groups have to do is give up terrorism and recognize Israel’s right to exist, two things that these nazi-like terrorists will never do.

It’s not caused by the refugee problem because the conflict was there even before a singe refugee left in 1946. Haj Amin al-Husseini, Hitler’s notorious Arab ally, and his Arab force had a massacre on the Jewish community in Hebron in 1929, way before a single Arab left his/her house. The Arabs left in wars started up by Arab Nazis in attempting to eliminate Israel. In some cases, Arab states encouraged the refugees to leave and the Jews failed in trying to encourage them to stay. In fact, the Arab states and PA with the billions could’ve used that money to make Palestinians lives prosperous and resettle the refugees, but instead used it to continue their Nazified fascist aggression against Israel. The PA and the Arab states seek to use the refugees as pawns in a propaganda war against Israel and to use the right of return as a means to demographically eliminate Israel, by making the Jews no longer a majority in Israel, and even having the keys to their former homes as a propaganda tool against Israel.

No, it’s not about Palestinian “rights.” Arab citizens in Israel have equal rights. Plus, it’s worse under the Palestinian Authority. Palestinians themselves admitted that Israel is better than the Palestinian Authority and better than Hamas. Daniel Pipes quoted Palestinians, even Nazi-like terrorists, as admitting that Israel’s better than the PA [see the article at http://www.danielpipes.org/article/2600].

And Ziad Zaranda, a Gazan who’s fiancée was killed, said in 2005 that “Hamas is worse than Israel, worse than Sharon.” Israel still allowed freedom of speech and opposition to its rule in the territories, whereas the PA and Hamas both hunted down the opposition. The Washington Times stated this about Hamas-controlled Gaza:

Newspapers are banned, critical television talk shows were pulled from the air, and a new Hamas decree prohibits demonstrations and even outdoor weddings without approval.

What happens to suspected collaborators of Israel is horrible. Many are hanged with no trial. And Palestinian Christians are forced to hide their identity when talking about persecution against them by the PA and Islamists.

The Economist reported that Yursi Maswadeh, who was arrested by the PA for allegedly being a member of the Hamas executive force, said that the PA captors were “worse than the Israelis.”

So clearly the conflict is not about Palestinian rights.

The proof clearly shows that the root cause of the conflict is the refusal to recognize Israel’s right to exist and attempts to eliminate Israel whether by terrorism, wars, blockades or boycotts. That’s the root cause.

It’s about Israel’s soul and the survival of the Jewish majority in Israel. The background is Israel seeking to survive. Leftist loons and anti-Israel propagandists, as well as apologists for the Arab Nazi war on Israel, have rewrote history to make Israel seem like the bad guy and the Palestinian Nazi war seem like a war of “national liberation.” A genocidal Nazi war is dressed in as the side of good while Israel, a little nation seeking to survive, is dressed in evil. As we see more about the conflict in the news, people have forgotten about it, allowing all these leftist loons, as well as anti-Israeli propagandists and Nazi apologists to rewrite the history of the conflict. It is this amnesia that allows the world to believe that Israel took 78% of an Arab state called Palestine, which existed for thousands of years, in 1948 and then took the remaining 22% in 1967. It’s this amnesia that leads the world to believe that Israel is an expansionist nation. It’s this amnesia that leads the world to believe that Israel is primarily [or only] responsible for the Arab refugee problem. And it’s defiantly this amnesia that leads the world to believe that the creation of Israel resulted in the displacement of millions of Palestinians. You know why? Because all these leftist and anti-Israel nutcases rewrites the history of the conflict and whitewashes the Nazi war on Israel. All these supporters of the Arab Nazi war on Israel rewrote the history of the conflict. However, anyone who looks closely at the conflict and its background will not be fooled by the anti-Israel propaganda machine.