Daniel Pipes wrote an article under the title: “Not Stealing Palestine, but Purchasing Israel” and the subtitle: “The real history of Israel's founding, and why it matters.” It was published on June 21, 2011 in National Review Online. Well, my friends, let me tell you something; this is the best case study I have ever encountered to demonstrate how the Jewish propaganda machine uses smoke and mirrors to change history by concocting a new version of it when the old version no longer serves the purpose for which it was itself concocted on a previous occasion.
Pipes mentions what he calls the Palestinian mantra which he tells us accuses the Zionists of stealing Palestine but he says that this is a false accusation. He explains that while every place on Earth was conquered by violent means and by overthrow – sometimes more than once -- only the Zionists were able to build a presence (guess what that means) in Palestine by the mild and mercantile method. That is, the Zionists bought property from the Palestinians until they felt they owned enough of the country to change its name to Israel and change its status to that of Jewish state.
From the looks of it, Pipes hit upon this new incarnation of history to get around the fact that the old version was losing traction given the recent developments in the Middle East and elsewhere. So let us look closely at how he approaches the subject this time. He says that the Jewish National Fund was founded in 1901 and got into the business of buying land in Palestine. This was a Zionist enterprise that continued until 1948, he says, when the British Mandate of Palestine gave up power in that year. And he goes on to assert that this was the moment and the occasion when the Arabs suddenly became nasty and turned against the Jews whereupon the Zionists took up the sword in self-defense and won more Palestinian land through military conquest.
Whoa! Let us stop here for a moment because it is where we see a pivotal point. Would you, Mr. Pipes, please explain how self-defense can net someone more land? Well, there was this organization called Haganah, says he, it was founded in 1920 which is 19 years after the Zionists had started their activities in Palestine and 28 years before the Brits packed up and left the place. He admits that the Haganah was a clandestine organization but fails to mention that it terrorized the Brits as well as the Palestinians. More than that, he asserts outright that it had nothing to do with stealing from the Palestinian people or expelling them from their properties. And he takes this position even though official and well documented history says that the Haganah was the first terrorist organization to ever plague the region and that it was the source of all violence in Palestine for a very long time. But now that he mutilated this part of history, Daniel Pipes goes on a tangent to paint an even more grotesque caricature of reality. He tries to tell how quiet things were in Palestine between the years 1920 and 1948, and he does this by showing the Zionists as being just the thing that Palestine needed. To this end, he says that the Zionists rehabilitated barren land, made the desert bloom, drained swamps, cleared channels, reclaimed wasteland, forested hills, cleared rocks and removed salt from the soil – as if none of this was done in Palestine before the advent of the Zionists or could be done without them. Well, my friend, maybe you ought to adopt a Zionist and take him home if you have a messy backyard. But watch out because he may just decide to kick you out of your house and take it over.
Thus, according to the Pipes version of history, things were peaceful in Palestine until about 1948 when the Brits suddenly left the place for no apparent reason. But then all hell broke loose, says he, because the Arabs suddenly turned nasty for no apparent reason and forced the Zionist to defend themselves which they did by acquiring more Palestinian land. And to explain all this logically, he concocts the following narrative. He says that between 1901 and 1948, the Jews were acquiring land from the Palestinians and were paying for it. Okay, but tell me this; if the Palestinians were paid for their properties, why would they suddenly turn nasty and jeopardize the arrangement they had with the Jews only to have their properties end up in the hands of the Jews free of charge? Logic would dictate that because the Jews were paying for what they got, they must have been the ones to instigate the violence to get out of the arrangement. No, says Pipes, this may be Arab logic but Jewish logic which is superior puts it the other way around. It says that because the Jews are a moral people and they wanted to pay for what they received, it was the immoral Palestinians who insisted on making the Jews do something contrary to their morality and so they forced them to take something for nothing. Oh yes; oh yes. See how Jewish logic works and why it is superior, my friend? No wonder God has adopted these people to be his favorite children. Would you not have done the same thing if you were a God? On second thought, don't adopt a Zionist to clean up your messy backyard, adopt him to be your live-in God. That's what the likes of Evangelical John Hagee says you should do.
But what was the Haganah doing between 1920 and 1948? You find a kind of semi-response to this question in the Pipes article. It is this: “Two great empires, the Ottoman and the British, ruled Eretz Yisrael. In contrast, the Zionists lacked military power. They could not possibly achieve statehood through conquest.” But the land that was there to steal was not in the hands of the Ottoman or the British rulers; it was in the hands of a simple Palestinian people who were under occupation, unarmed and defenseless. Official and well documented history has it that as the dominant military power in Palestine, the Brits first allowed the immigration of Jews in accordance with their promise to facilitate the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. But when the illegal immigration went too far, the Brits tried to curtail it upon which the Haganah terrorized them. As to the attitude of the Haganah toward the Palestinians, here is what Pipes says: “...as the historian Efraim Karsh demonstrates in 'Palestine betrayed' most Arabs fled their lands; exceedingly few were forced off.” It looks like Karsh and Pipes mean to say that the Haganah only blew kisses at the Palestinians upon which the latter fled and left their properties for the Jews to take. Who do these guys think we are? Stupid American legislators? Even then, I don't believe you will find many House Reps or Senators who will swallow this kind of Jewish crap.
To give you a sense of how this kind of idiotic narratives were rolled out one after the other in the past half century when there was no opposition to push back against them, let me mention a few. First they said that parts of Palestine were not occupied and so the Jews went in and occupied them. To prove their point, they combed the literature and quoted every writer that spent time in the deserts of the region and wrote a word or two about their experience. The way the thing was presented was that the Jews only grabbed the places that were not occupied by the Palestinians. And the counter argument that was only whispered in academic circles was to the effect that Palestine has been the land of milk and honey since the beginning of time. It then became known as being part of the Fertile Crescent. It sat at the crossroads of the world with the most savvy farmers tilling its soil and the most sophisticated merchants crisscrossing it all the time. In fact, Palestine was then as it is today one of the most densely populated places on Earth. For these reasons and until the land was desperately needed, all natural places were deliberately left in their wild state in the name of conservation. In fact, this is the policy now pursued by the Israeli authorities in the Negev Desert where there is controversy and a human drama unfolding between the nomads who want to keep the place as it is and the people who say they need to develop the desert to accommodate new immigrants.
And so when this version of history was shown to be bogus, the Jewish propaganda machine said that the Zionists brought advanced technology to Palestine and should have been welcomed not vilified for that. The counter argument was to the effect that even if this were true, the excuse must be rejected because it was the standard excuse used by the colonial powers to loot the places they colonized not to develop them. Still, there was a difference between the ordinary colonists and the Jewish settlers; it is that the colonists limited their claims to their technological advancements whereas the settlers inflated their claims to biblical dimensions. In fact, when you come right down to it, you discover that a self-destruct mechanism exists at the core of every concoction put together by the Judeo-Yiddish culture. It is the exaggeration of Jewish accomplishments to such an extent that it goes past all superlatives to infinity and beyond. This attitude turns every claim they make about themselves into a not so funny number performed by clowns who could only entertain preteens who may laugh and awe US Congressmen who may respond with 29 standing ovations.
Let us take some examples. When the Jewish organizations found out that a secretary -- who worked at the lab where the German scientists first split the atom -- may have had an ancestor that converted to Judaism, they claimed that the Jews split the atom. Also, the same thing happened with a secretary that worked at the lab where the helical shape of the DNA molecule was discovered. They quickly claimed that the shape of the molecule was discovered by a Jew. And there is the fantastic claim they used to peddle to the effect that the Israelis taught the Americans how to build drones until the truth was told on this website to the effect that the Americans started to make drones several decades before Israel came into existence and that to this day, Israel only assembles drones from parts made in America. But the list of Judeo-Yiddish bullshit is a very long one and it will take time to purge it clean.
Thus, when you look carefully at what the Jewish propaganda machine says Israel and the Jews have accomplished -- whether this is in the field of science and technology or it is in the realm of the humanity they display toward the people they deal with -- you will always find something superlatively distorted and infinitely exaggerated in the claim. In fact you will realize that Israel could not reach the level of Uganda without America's continued assistance. And you will find that Idi Amin – who was originally groomed by the Israelis to engage in anti-Arab mischief before he turned against them -- was a great deal more moral than they ever were or can ever be. And so, when in an effort to legitimize the current Israeli regime someone like Daniel Pipes paints a saintly picture of the Zionists, the people of the world understandably get sick to the stomach and reject the idea of legitimizing Israel as it stands today.
Finally, when all the versions of history that they rolled out were dismissed as bogus, Daniel Pipes came up with one that says they bought Palestine and paid for it. Well, let me push back against this version with the following argument. If it is true that the Jews bought all the properties they claim they bought in Palestine, they should have proof of purchase and must not worry about the Palestinian demand for the right of return. But so far, the Israelis have shown no proof of purchase and they are fighting like mad against the Palestinian demand for the right of return. In my opinion this proves that the Israelis are thieves, they are lying about their theft and they are insulting our collective intelligence by treating us like dummies at par with the US Congress.
Still, we have to live with the legacy that this Congress has created and thrown in the lap of humanity as a precedent showing how a group of raving religious nuts can establish a theocracy in some places on this Earth. They can do it by establishing a presence in a British colony; say Canada or Australia. To do this, the religious nuts can buy a house in those places and look for a piece of barren land -- of which there are plenty in Canada and Australia -- and rehabilitate the thing. In the meantime, the group can form a terrorist organization and start terrorizing the locals by murdering them and looting their properties. If the locals turn nasty, the group can defend itself by expelling them and grabbing still more of their land. After that, the group can use America's power and prestige to try and force the people it has expelled to recognize it as a theocracy thus legitimize the acts of theft and murder it has committed against them.
Let's call this an American utopia created by Congressional nirvana and then have them shove it.