A short synopsis of Jewish History and the Arab Israeli conflict r6 - by YJ Draiman

A short synopsis of Jewish History and the Arab Israeli conflict r6

Jews have the absolute right for their homeland. Zionism the movement itself was created during the second half the 1800′s. Jews purchased a substantial amount of territories in Palestine-Israel (see testimony of the Mufti of Jerusalem in front of the British Peel Commission) from local sheikhs and lords and built settlements there. This dates as early as 1860, that is 79 years before WWII.

During all of this time more Jews joined the existing Jewish population and kept migrating back to their historic homeland which comprised of two kingdoms: the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah.  Many Jews were driven out of the Kingdom of Israel by the Assyrians in 720, B.C.E.  The Babylonians in 586, B.C.E., drove many of the Jews out of the Kingdom of Judah, including Jerusalem. Then followed the Persians in 536, and the Hellenistic Syrian Seleucid Rulers in 332 BCE.  Jews - The Maccabees re-conquered Israel in 166 BCE.

Romans conquered Israel in 63 C.E., and in 70 A.D. destroyed the Jewish second Temple and renames Jerusalem Aelia Capitolina and also renamed The Land of Israel Palestina.

Which was followed by these conquests:

Byzantines in 313; Persian in 614; Arabs Muslims nations 636 CE with various rulers; Crusaders 1099; and the Mamluks in 1291.

Then came the Ottoman Empire in 1517.  In 1564 the Ottoman Empire encouraged and stimulated Jewish immigration which added over 12,000 new Jewish returnees to Palestine-Israel (The Ottoman land records for Palestine showed that the government owned over 90% of the land) and than the British Rule 1918-1948, which is duty was to help reconstitute the Jewish National Home in all of Palestine aka The Land of Israel.

During the time of the Roman rule in Israel, the Jews in the kingdom called Judea revolted against the Roman rule. The Romans crushed the rebellion, exiled many Jews out of the country, seized many others and turned them into slaves deporting them to Rome and other places. Not only that, they changed the name of the land from Provincia Judea to Palestine to humiliate the Jews.

For 600 years or so, various Arab Muslims nations and or tribes spread imperialism throughout the Middle East from Arabia. Among other conquests, the Arabs conquered Judea-Palestine, killing many of the local Jewish population, and converting many into Islam. The story of how the Arabs got to Palestine is the story of conquest, imperialism and brutal occupation. (Medina aka Yathrib in Saudi Arabia was a Jewish City, when Muhammed in about 630 AD took it over. (This is the story of the tragic end of the Jews of Medina. A case of ethnic cleansing, betrayal and genocide carried out by the Messenger of Allah (PBUH). The prophet raided the 2000 year old Jewish communities of Medina, killed their men, confiscated their properties, enslaved their wives and children and banished the unwanted with no provocation on the part of the Jews. The holy Prophet's sole motive was greed for their wealth and lust for their women).  

During the 19th and 20th century, when Arabs had little to no interest in the land of Israel, additional Jews bought massive amounts of land and resettled there, turning quicksands in lush fields and greenery. After WWI the Allied Powers, the international community and the League of Nations under the San Remo Treaty of 1920 assigned the British "The Mandate for Palestine" as trustee over the land so that a Jewish state would be created in that land, confirmed by the 1920 Treaty of Sevres and Lausane and the Faisal Weizmann Agreement of 1919. The British had their own agenda in mind.

The original Mandate territory included what is today Israel; Gaza, Parts of Sinai, West Bank (Judea and Samaria), Jordan and the Golan Heights. The British had their own agenda and divided the country up, violating treaties and agreements. They gave to the Arabs the allocated land which had been Mandated to the Jewish people in violation of the 1920 San Remo Treaty: everything East of the Jordan river.  This land which was intentionally given to the Arabs and constituted about 80% of the land allocated to the Jewish people.  The British gave the land to the Hashemite Kingdom for the Arab population in order to create a new State: Trans-Jordan, which expelled the Jews and confiscated their assets.  The British also traded the Golan Heights to the French who ruled Syria for oil in Iraq. Thus, after already separating the country into one Arab state Trans-Jordan, which forbade Jews from residing there, this is the present day Jordan, they intended to break up the remaining Jewish land West of the Jordan River, present day  Israel and wrongfully give it to the Arabs a second Arab state at the expense of the Jewish people.

In the meanwhile a conflict emerged over territorial boundaries between the Jewish indigenous inhabitants and the nomadic Arabs. The U.N. in violation of international treaties and without legal authority, proposed (not mandated) a deal to split the remaining land of the British Mandate for Palestine (yes, split yet again) into an Arab state and a Jewish state. The Jewish leadership accepted the proposal, provided the Arabs also accept it. The Arabs declined. Thus the 1948 war began. A war in which the Arabs with armies from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and local militias of Arabs, and help on a smaller scale from the armies of Algeria, Morocco and Libya attacked the new Jewish entity. The Arab coalition had extensive weapons and a large army and they were confident on victory, to the extent, that they asked the local Arab inhabitants to vacate the land while they decimated the Jews. But fate had other plans. Through divine intervention, the Arabs lost that war (and three more wars afterwards). Many Arab civilians fled their homes because their Arab leadership told them to leave. Some were panicked by rumors. There were only a few incidents with civilians. (It is an important fact that during the war of 1948, Jewish settlements that were seized by Arab forces were razed  to the ground – Kfar Etzion for example and the remaining population there killed).

The true and detailed facts and history is much more voluminous and complex. The problem Israel faces is that it is not as quick to explain the 4000+ years of Jewish history in The Land of Israel to counter the Arab lies and propaganda. Lies that are repeated consistently are easier to spread.  However, upon close examination of the historical facts, the lies are exposed as baseless deceptive propaganda and should be dismissed as such by any objective view. 

It should be noted only a small segment of history is being presented here. I did not enumerate anything about how Arabs used terror and violence prior and since the beginning of the conflict.  I did not mention that before Arab nationalism and Muslim radicalism took over, the small Arab community was glad that the Jews were coming back to their ancestral homeland, providing an economic boost and jobs to the region, (even king Faisal was delighted.) I did not enumerate or discuss in detail the Arab-Palestinian refugees without telling how and why they became refugees.

I might also mention that the Arab countries terrorized and expelled over a million Jewish families and their children, confiscated their assets, businesses, homes and Real estate property (about 120,000 sq. km. or 75,000 sq. miles, which is six times the size of Israel and valued in the trillions of dollars). About 750,000 of those expelled Jewish refugees and their families from Arab countries were resettled in Greater Israel and they constitute over half the population today. It is time for the Arab countries who terrorized and expelled the million Jewish families and their children to resettle the Arab-Palestinian refugees in their own countries, and or Jordan, and put an end to this conflict, thus, end the misery and displacement of the Arab Palestinians. This will bring about peace and coexistence which the people so rightfully desire and deserve. Utilizing resources allocated for weapons and conflict and diverting it to the economy. It will bring economic prosperity and an increase in the standard of living and healthcare for all the people. 

YJ Draiman