You never win an argument with the Jews because you're antisemitic for saying A instead of B and you're antisemitic for saying B instead of A. And so, it is in America that you're antisemitic for saying the Jewish lobby instead of saying the Israeli lobby, and for saying the Israeli lobby instead of saying the Jewish lobby.
And so it is on the
international stage for saying that the Arab Jews were drawn to their ancestral
homeland in occupied Palestine where they went willingly having felt the
infamous connection, and for saying that the Arab Jews were forced to flee the
Arab countries by their non-Jewish neighbors, and pushed to go to occupied
Palestine where they knew they will be discriminated against by the European
Jews, and made to feel miserable.
And so it was with the
airlifted Jews from Ethiopia and Yemen to Israel. And so it was with the “let
my people go” Russian Jews whom the Soviet Government insisted they pay for the
free education they received before going to Israel where they'll benefit from
the excellent education that was paid for by the Soviet working class. You get
the idea, my friend, don't you?
And so, here comes Clifford D.
May who dreamed up yet another version of that same story; one that suits the
moment. He will have you believe that the Arab governments suddenly decided in
unison that they did not want the Jews among them anymore. And so, instead of
sending the police to harass the Jews or arrest them, incited the Arab masses
to turn against their Jewish neighbors, and so did the Arab masses. This gave
the Jews no alternative but to flee their Arab homelands and go settle in the
recently occupied Palestine, homeland of the Palestinian people who lived there
since the beginning of time.
You'll find Clifford May's
fantastic account of how the Arab governments and Arab masses dealt with the
Jewish citizens among them at a time that the Israelis realized the demography
in Israel will work against them, and they needed to do something about it.
May’s article came under the title: “The forgotten refugees of the Middle
East,” and subtitle: “Jews who were forced to flee their homes in Arab lands.”
It was published on December 8, 2020 in The Washington Times.
What really happened that
Clifford May is distorting, is that someone in Israel who knew how to work a
calculator, discovered that there soon will be more Arabs than Jews from the
River to the Sea, and they should do something about it before Israel becomes Palestine
again, not by force of arms but by the power of the bedroom. And that's when
the idea of calling on Jews everywhere in the world occurred to Israel's
leaders, and that’s when the charade of “let my people go” whether they want it
or not, took roots.
In his article, Clifford May
made several false points that would require a book to respond to. And so, I'll
only respond to a few of them. I begin by explaining something about the Arabic
language. The sound “mu” used as a prefix, designates a practitioner of
something. An example familiar to Westerners is that of the people who practice
jihad. In Arabic, they are called mujaheddin. The same goes for the imam that
gives himself the right to pronounce fatwas. He is called mufti. Thus, when
Clifford May speaks of the Jerusalem mufti, he means the nobody imam who said
things that failed to impress the people who had better things to do.
Thus, when you get to the
passage about the mufti who spoke from Berlin to farmers in Palestine that had
no plumbing in their homes, let alone a radio in an era that knew not the
television, the internet or the social media, yet knew all about occupation,
war and strife –– be certain that the Palestinians fleeing for their lives did
not have the equivalent of a Tokyo Rose telling them things that could have
affected the invading Jewish army. Rest assured that the voice of the mufti was
nothing more than a burp in a Hurricane.
The other point I want to
address is that of the Farhud. This was a clash like they always happen between
different groups when the governing regime is brought down. It is usually the
settling of old scores between individuals or families that had long festering
grievances against each other. It flared in Baghdad when the British army defeated
the Iraqi army, resulting in the death of 180 Jews and probably as many Iraqis.
A handful of Jews left town but returned when things calmed down. There was
nothing racial or religious about this occurrence.
As to the so-called war
unleashed by the Arab armies against the Jews, there was no war. Except for the
Brits who were still commanding an Arab contingent in Jordan, the front nations
had no armies to speak of. These countries were still reeling from the colonial
rule that left them with lightly armed police forces and no military to speak
of. When the Jewish pogrom of the Palestinians began, these forces were sent to
the border to guard against the Jewish militias coming in hot pursuit of the
Palestinians. Do you know what else happened, my friend? In a region that had
never seen an airplane in flight, now saw that the Jews had an air force, which
they used to strafe the fleeing Palestinians. It turned out that someone was
looking after the high-tech terrorists, and it wasn't God.
Finally, in a flagrant display
of the limitless dimension of Jewish gall, Clifford May, chastised the
Palestinians who speak of the right to return. And in that same breath, he went
on to say this: “It would be useful if Egyptian and Jordanian leaders
acknowledge that their Jewish communities were mistreated. The point of the
exercise would be for the Egyptians, Jordanians and others to become familiar
with the history of their cousins, an indigenous people of the Middle East”.
Marhaban, Ivanka Trump. I didn't know you were my cousin. Soon, I'll let you know if this is a blessing or a curse.