WHO ARE THE PALESTINIANS?
By Hal Lindsey
One of the most misunderstood issues today is
the question of "Who are the Palestinians"? The truth about this matter
has been so deliberately obscured that even to raise the question will
seem strange to most readers.
In my book, The Everlasting Hatred, the Roots
of Jihad, I trace the history of the people now being called the "Palestinians."
The land of Israel became known as Palestine after the Roman destruction
of Israel in A.D. 70. It was ruled by many different invaders for the following
19 centuries.
In the 7th century, the Muslims took control of
Palestine for the first time. From A.D. 635 until 1917, the Muslims ruled
it, with only a few interruptions by the European Crusaders. During that
span of time, the land was reduced to total desolation. Many people who
traveled the land in the 19th century remarked on the fact that Palestine
was as desolate as the moon and very few people lived there.
In 1867, Mark Twain remarked about his visit to
the Holy Land in his book, "The Innocents Abroad." He lamented, "Stirring
scenes occur in the valley [of Jezreel] no more. There is not a solitary
village throughout its whole extent for 30 miles in either direction. There
are two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents, but not a single permanent
habitation. One may ride 10 miles hereabouts and not see 10 human beings."
By all eyewitness accounts of that era, Palestine
was a total desolation. There were virtually no trees and no people. Because
of lack of trees, the weather changed and it rarely ever rained. The irrigation
systems of the once fertile valleys were all destroyed, rendering most
areas into malaria-ridden swamps. The terraces of the mountainsides were
torn down, causing terrible erosion that left only barren rocks. This was
the condition of Palestine by the beginning of the 19th century. It was
at this time that Jews began to flee severe persecutions in Russia and
Eastern Europe. In the mid 1800s, some Jews came to Palestine and, with
the generous aid of some successful Jews like the Rothschilds, began to
buy property from Muslim Ottoman Turks. The Muslims thought the land was
worthless anyway, so they sold it to the "dumb Jews" for extremely inflated
prices.
To everyone's amazement, the Jews were very successful
at reclaiming the land. Many of them died from malaria and the rigorous
life the work demanded, but they performed an agricultural miracle that
made the land very productive again. As a result of their success, poor
migrant workers from the surrounding Muslim countries began to flood in
to work for the Jews. The Jews literally became victims of their own success.
Almost all of the people calling themselves "Palestinians" today are the
descendants of those migrant workers.
Much more is said and documented on this subject
in my book. But the main point is this: The Muslims have repeatedly shown
they understand these things. Since they know that the so-called "Palestinians"
are not a homogeneous people, but rather a mixed conglomerate of workers
with no cohesive organizational or political skills, they have repeatedly
not given them a state.
When the Hashemite Tribe, who were rulers over
Mecca and Medina for centuries, were driven out by the Saudis, the British
gave them control over the vastly greater numbers of "migrant workers"
in Trans Jordan. The British said this would be, in effect, "The State
of Palestine." Instead, the Hashemites, who make up only about 20 percent
of the population, turned it into their own kingdom and called it the Kingdom
of Jordan. When the Jordanians and Egyptians controlled the so-called West
Bank and the Gaza Strip for 19 years (1948 to 1967), there was never a
thought of giving the disorganized mass of "migrant workers" a state. Why?
Because they knew there was no cohesive, homogeneous people known as "Palestinians."
The current efforts of Jordan and Egypt (and all
the rest of the Muslim Middle East nations) to give these same people a
state is clearly a ploy to get a foothold inside Israel. It is a strategic
accommodation to establish a base from which the final assault against
Israel can be made. What they couldn't do militarily is now being facilitated
through the United States and the E.U.
Muslims will never accept a permanent presence
of infidels in what they claim is sacred Islamic soil. Especially Jewish
infidels for which the Koran reserves its most vehement condemnations.
In their minds, the Koran and Allah will not let them accept Jews in what
they view as their third holiest site.
The United States had better learn these things,
or we will find ourselves guilty of facilitating the destruction of God's
people, to whom the Word of God says the land belongs forever. God will
not let that happen, but He will certainly judge those who have any part
in trying to do it. God warned: "Therefore thus says the Lord God: 'Surely
I have spoken in My burning jealousy against the rest of the nations and
against all Edom [Arabs], who took MY LAND to themselves as a possession,
with whole-hearted joy and spiteful minds, in order to plunder its open
country ... But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your
branches and yield your fruit to MY PEOPLE ISRAEL, for they are about to
come." Ezk 36:5,8
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