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How an Israeli Burger Joint Relates to ‘The Palestinian Delusion’

Dec 11, 2019 6:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Here is a terrific new review by Bryan Preston of The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process.

“How an Israeli Burger Joint Relates to ‘The Palestinian Delusion,'” by Bryan Preston, PJ Media, December 9, 2019:

True story: Last weekend I tried a new burger joint in Austin called BurgerIM. It’s Israeli-owned. I posted about it on Facebook and a friend in Michigan replied. BurgerIM had tried to open up a shop in Dearborn, Mich., but Palestinian protesters fought it – based solely on the fact that its owners are Jews – and BurgerIM pulled out. Jobs and opportunity lost to the decades-old Israel/Palestinian conflict.

I’m sure some are thinking that we wouldn’t have this problem if the Palestinians just had a homeland. Guess what? They do. Robert Spencer’s new book lays out the facts.

A major element of the Palestinian case against Israel is the claim that the Palestinians, not the Israelis, are not only the rightful owners of the land, but its original inhabitants. That’s just one of the commonly accepted falsehoods that Islamic scholar and historian Robert Spencer explodes in his new book The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process. “No archaeological evidence, or evidence of any other kind, has ever been found to substantiate a link between the ancient Canaanites or Jebusites and the modern-day Palestinians,” he points out. “Palestine was the name of a region but never of a people or of a political entity.”

This fact, as Spencer shows, has enormous implications for the idea that the Palestinians are the rightful owners of the land of Israel today, or even of the West Bank and Gaza. Drawing on primary source and eyewitness data, Spencer succinctly sets out the history of the region. Yes, it was under Arab rule beginning in the seventh century, but Jews were there before that, and were still there when the Arabs gave way to the Ottoman Turks, and when the land became famously depopulated and desolate, as Mark Twain and numerous other travelers noted, all quoted by Spencer.

In the nineteenth century, the Zionist project led large numbers of Jews to return to their old homeland, which also led many Muslim Arabs to move there as well, in search of economic opportunity. At this point, the idea that had long been discussed in Britain and elsewhere, of giving Jews a “national home” (which may or may not take the form of a state) in Palestine began to gain traction, resulting in the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which put Britain on record saying there should indeed be such a Jewish national home. In 1922, the newly established League of Nations assigned the area to British administration as the Mandate for Palestine, precisely for the purpose of establishing this Jewish national home.

As Spencer recounts in detail, the idea met resistance from the beginning. T.E. Lawrence, the renowned “Lawrence of Arabia,” argued that the Muslim Arabs should receive some of the territory set aside for a Jewish national home, as a reward for fighting (for their own reasons) for the British against the Ottomans during World War I. Lawrence and his allies were successful: the British quickly gave the great part of the Mandate for Palestine land, the part east of the Jordan that forms the state of Jordan today, to the Muslim Arabs….

There is much more. Read the rest here.

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  1. gravenimage says

    Dec 11, 2019 at 6:07 pm

    How an Israeli Burger Joint Relates to ‘The Palestinian Delusion’
    ……………….

    Muslims are such thugs.

    I regularly patronize Jewish restaurants here, including a Kosher place run by an Israeli family.

  2. JHL says

    Dec 11, 2019 at 11:24 pm

    70 people killed by Islamic State in Niger. This happened at a military base.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 11, 2019 at 11:36 pm

      Horrifyingly true.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 11, 2019 at 11:36 pm

        Here’s the link:

        “At least 70 soldiers killed in attack on Niger military camp”

        https://www.france24.com/en/20191211-niger-soldiers-killed-attack-sahel-military-camp-issoufou-keita-macron-france-tuareg-islamic-state-al-qaeda-dead

  3. mortimer says

    Dec 12, 2019 at 12:56 pm

    Yes, the ‘Palestinian’ Arabs have a homeland called ‘Jordan’. Those Arabs who formerly called themselves simply ‘Arabs’ before 1967 are descended from immigrants to ‘Lower Syria’ who came from surrounding countries following WWI. There was nothing ‘Palestinian’ about those Syrians, Egyptian, Iranian, Turkish and North African financial migrants who came searching for jobs in Jewish companies. These children and grandchildren of migrants suddenly became ‘Palestinian’ when the KGB declared them so.

    76% of the original Mandate for Palestine became ‘Jordan’. Israel was intended to be the Jewish homeland.

    The dithering of the British Foreign Office has led to all the terrorism and bloodshed. They should have moved swiftly forward to create the Jewish homeland and set it on a solid footing.

  4. mortimer says

    Dec 12, 2019 at 1:02 pm

    The Arabs of the region differ with how the territory (the spoils of the Ottoman Empire) should be divided, but they ALL want personally to be in charge of ALL of it. That is obviously impossible.

    If Arabs had their way, they would begin conquering neighboring Arab countries and redrawing the entire map. Their in-fighting would be never-ending.

    The opposition to Israel’s existence is all about Islamic anti-Semitism and nothing else.

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