Clifford D. May wrote a piece by which he hopes to justify
the Jewish robbery of Palestine .
Before we get into his intellectual phantasmagoria, let's establish a few
principles. To begin with, let's imagine that the Irish began emigrating out of
Ireland
not a hundred or two hundred years ago but five hundred years ago.
Today, a number of them decide that the Irish do not like
the way they are treated in America
where they are hated because of their hot temper, and so they form a lobbying
group that gets into the business of pressuring the US Congress to back their
claim for a homeland in Ireland .
The question is this: Do these people retain the right to
have an enclave in Ireland
that will displace the people who have lived there since the beginning of time,
thus secure a space for themselves, and call the new place Nation of
Patrickland? And they dream that someday they will be recognized as
Patricklanders.
Of course, no one in his right mind will say that the
descendants of people who left Ireland 500 years ago retain the right to go
back, displace the people that stayed there, take their homes and their lands,
and do so by force or by persuasive arguments. To make matters more
complicated, the analogy with Palestine gets
worse for the Jews when you consider that the latter left Palestine not 500 years ago but 2000 years
ago. They did not go to one place where they remained a homogenous people, but
went everywhere in the world where they settled, intermarried with the locals
and had descendants that picked up the local physical characteristics.
Worse still for the Hebrew/Jewish analogy, imagine that
kooks from everywhere in the world started to claim they are of Irish ancestry
by the mere fact that they are Catholic. And so, they claim to have the right
to go live in Patrickland, even if they must displace an Irish family that
lived there forever. They make such claim, they say, because they converted to
Catholicism – or someone along the line of their ancestry did so – whether it
happened a generation ago or ten generations ago.
So now we look at the Clifford May article that came under
the title: “Jesus of Palestine?” and the subtitle: “We need to remember exactly
what 'Palestine '
means.” It was published on January 2, 2014 in national review Online. The
writer is upset because the President of the Palestinian authority called Jesus
“a Palestinian messenger.” This, says May, helps to deny “the Jewish past in
the Middle East … a not so subtle way of
threatening the Jewish future in the region.” He does not explain how this can
be, but that's beside the point.
Actually, Clifford May who has been picking fights lately
with the American Studies Association, did so again in this article, but that's
something I shall skip to get into the heart of the discussion at hand which is
the story of Palestine, and the Jews who are stealing it. May begins to tell
the story at the year 130 AD when a Jewish rebellion in Judea angered the Roman
emperor, Hadrian so much that he vowed to wipe Judea off the map. He did so,
says Clifford May, by renaming it Palestine ,
after the Philistines who were the ancient enemies of the Jews. And so he asks:
Who were the Philistines?
He tells who the Philistines were, and where they came from,
but that does not matter anymore than the question whether the Jews were the
nomadic Hebrew tribes that originated in the region, or they were the people
that came out of Egypt, Persia, Babylonia, Assyria, Mesopotamia or what have
you. The Philistines were ancient enemies of the Jews, says the author of the
article, and that makes them as rooted in Palestine
as much as the ancient Hebrews who were also there – wherever they came from.
The pertinent point is that the Jews of today who did not
live there continuously have no right to go there, displace a local family and
steal their land or property anymore than a self-described Patricklander would
have the right to go to Ireland
and do the same to an Irish family that lived there forever. Everything else
that is in the Clifford May article is as moot as a load of pig manure on its
way to a processing plant.