We live in a world of Media hype, bias, outright prejudice and "lying deception" (otherwise known as Politically Correct Language).

With the question of Palestinian Statehood once again in the news, I thought I might today, just present a few excerpts from the 'Think Israel . org' Website on the history of Palestine. I do so only to provide readers with news that doesn't often merit attention in the Main Stream Press.

"By 1920 the Ottoman Empire had exercised undisputed sovereignty over Palestine for 400 years. In Article 95 of the treaty of Sevres, that sovereignty was transferred to England in trust for a national homeland for the jews. The local Arabs had never exercised sovereignty over Palestine and so they lost nothing. Their rights were fully protected by a provisio in the grant: '...it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine...' The proviso has been fully observed by the Israelis. Since 1950 the Arabs have built some 261 new settlements in Judea and Samaria -- more than twice as many as the Jews, but you never hear of them. They fill them with Arabs from Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan and by the grace of God they become Palestinians. Allahu Akbar! The Arabs call Judea "the West Bank' because they would look silly claiming that Jews are illegally living in Judea." (Comment by Wallace Brand on Martin Peretz "Narrative Dissonance" The New Republic, July 1, 2009)

Re a Palestinian Arab State: "So the question is, why is it so important that these particular Arabs, who have given the world so much -- airline hijacking, suicide bombings with rat-poison laced shrapnel, the Qassam rocket -- should have a state of their own?... They are mostly the descendents of Arabs from Syria and Egypt who moved to Palestine during the latter part of the 19th century and the Mandate period, mostly to take advantage of better economic conditions there -- thanks to the Zionists -- than in their homelands. In the years since 1948, and particularly since 1967, they have created a mythology of a 'Palestinian' civilization that extends back hundreds, indeed thousands, of years. But that's what it is, a myth. 'History' invented from whole cloth." (Daniel Greenfield "The Palestinian Muslim Money Hole")

"What is ironic is that Israel belongs exclusively to the Jews by International Law. (Google Think-Israel for articles by Howard Grief, Yoram Shifftan, Wallace Brand, for the legal basis of Israel's ownership of Israel and the Territories.) So why do the Arabs insist the land is theirs? Because the Jews have been so crazy for peace, they have been willing to share, to give up pieces of their tiny country, for a piece of paper. The Arabs created a phony people in 1964, called the "Palestinians" and blanketed the world with the mantra that they were the Palestinians and Palestine was theirs. There has not ever been a country or a state called Palestine. There have been Palestinians. During the time of the British Mandate -- from 1922 to 1948 -- the Jews called where they lived Palestine. They played music in the Palestine Philharmonic. They read the Palestine Post (now the Jerusalem Post.) As the Palestine Brigade, they fought in the British Army in World War 2. The Arabs also fought hard -- for Hitler." (Eliezar Edwards, December, 2008.)

Edited Excerpt in relation to Obama's Position on East Jerusalem.

Between 1949 and 1967, Jordan ethnically cleansed East Jerusalem of Jews to interrupt a continuous 1,000-year Jewish presence. They destroyed 34 out of the 35 ancient synagogues in the Jewish Quarter and used them as hen-houses, desecrated the ancient cemetery on the Mount of Olives and used the gravestones as latrines, and denied Jews access to the Western Wall and turned the courtyard into a garbage dump. But because they succeeded in doing that for almost 20 whole years -- in contrast to 1,000 years of continuous Jewish life -- the Obama administration insists that the Jewish State needs to cede portions of East Jerusalem to a future Palestinian entity on demographic grounds. Very even-handed!

From Background Information at Think-Israel

Who are the Palestinians? Palestinians are Arabs. They have no historical, national or cultural identity distinct from other Arabs of the region. Most of them came into Palestine in search of economic opportunities after World War 1 when the British and the Jews began to build up a land that was moribund.

What is Palestine? When the Romans conquered Judea, they renamed it Palestine. Since then, no occupying power ever made it an independent state or established a capital in Jerusalem. Under the Ottoman Empire, it was part of the province of Syria.

R.P. BenDedek
Email: rpbendedek@hotmail.com

R.P. BenDedek is the pseudonym of an Australian who has been teaching in China since 2003. In addition to contributing to Magic City Morning Star News as a columnist, he is also currently assisting the Editor of this Newspaper.

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Additionally, BenDedek is the author of 'The King's Calendar: The Secret of Qumran' at www.kingscalendar.com