Blue Collar Muse

Back in February I posted a response to comments by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the real nature of the Holocaust. At that time I mentioned the thinking I had done on the matter would result in several posts. This is the second installment.

We hear a great deal about the trials faced by longsuffering Palestinians. Locked away in camps dotting the Middle Eastern landscape they suffer in silence, ignored by the media. Driven to despair by the evil residents of the Zionist entity, when they hit bottom they snap. With no hope left, they decide to check out, to head home, to get a little face time with Allah and enjoy the sexual pot pourri that is their own personal harem of 72.

To accomplish this trip, they don’t OD on pills, eat one of the ubiquitous weapons in the Middle East or sit in a garage with a vehicle running. That would be too much like the infidels in the West. No, everyone knows the proper Muslim way to shuffle off to eternity is to strap on a belt filled with explosives, poison soaked shrapnel and a trigger and then find a crowd of Jews and Americans (pick a crowd without an armed IDF member in it - they might ruin your send off) and then pull the trigger. In the blink of an eye, Allah and sexual fantasies undreamed of in this world are yours.

There is a problem with the process, however. The homicidal rage driving these people to kill Jews and themselves is based in the premise that the Jews are responsible for displacing the Palestinians and keeping them locked in camps. Unfortunately, that is not true. Further, that it has been pounded into the minds of Palestinians and the world over the last 60 years as a rationale for all manner of bad Palestinian behavior means that it is an untruth that will likely take some drastic measures to expose and correct.

If you want to know the truth; if you want to know who is really to blame for the plight of the Palestinians, you need look no further than to the Arab nations that surround Israel. This is what happened.

Desperate for the prosperity and future being created by the Zionist’s dreams and industry, Arabs from all over the Middle East made a bee line for the region known as Palestine in the first part of the 1900s. They settled there to make a better life for themselves and their families. Hat tip to Maggie for this post at Maggie’s Notebook, Who and What Are Palestinians. Be sure to read her post and the review she points to there.

Once there, the Arabs and the Jews worked out a relationship that was of benefit to all parties concerned. They were neighbors, friends and business associates.

In the run up to the Declaration of Statehood by Israel in May of 1948, that changed. Tensions ran high as the surrounding Arab nations began their talk of driving the Jews into the sea and turning it red with Jewish blood. Lost in the Arab bluster and threats against the Jews are the words the Arabs had for their Arab bretheren then residing in Palestine.

Palestinian Arabs were advised to vacate the region ahead of the Arab assault on the Zionists. This was, of course, for their own safety as the Arab invasion armies could not be held responsible if, while shooting at Jews, they killed Arabs without the good sense to beat feet ahead of the bombs and bullets. For those Arabs thinking twice about leaving years or decades of work and life behind in response to Arab aggression, the word went out that Arabs found in Palestine after the victory would be considered traitors and collaborators and would be dealt with accordingly. Besides, what’s to worry about, the Palestinians leave for a couple of weeks while Arab armies kick Jewish backside for grins and giggles and then everyone can come back. As an added bonus, just think of all that stuff the dead Jews won’t need anymore - SOMEone is going to have to do something with all that stuff! **wink, wink**

The Jews, on the other hand, asked their Arab neighbors, friends and business associates to stay, to be a part of the Jewish State and to keep on doing what they had been doing for almost half a century. History records that Palestinian Arabs chose the offer extended by the Arab nations and not the Jewish nation. So effective was the carrot and stick of plunder or execution that 90% of Haifa’s 60,000 Arabs left!

All would have been well that ended well if those pesky Zionists had just rolled over and let themselves be exterminated. Instead, they had the chutzpah to defend themselves and even mount an offensive or three. The end result was that the backside which ended up on the receiving end of the whooping was distinctly Arab. And here we arrive at our goal of pinpointing the problem.

Tens of thousands of Arabs left what was now Israel in advance of the Arab armies’ invasion. They assumed they would return behind a victorious coalition. When that victory didn’t materialize as promised, these people had a problem. Where were they going to go?

Israel rightly viewed them as a security threat. They had openly and decisively sided with Israel’s enemies for whatever reason. Thus Israel would not let them return to the homes, businesses, lands and neighborhoods they had lived in previously.

The Arab governments that encouraged them to leave also refused to allow their Arab brothers from Palestine, the very ones that believed the promises of swift victory and choice spoils, to be welcomed into Arab society. They weren’t citizens of any of the Arab countries, they were merely Palestinians and while everyone was willing to use them, no one was willing to extend them a brotherly Arab hand in their time of need.

The solution was the creation of refugee camps which dot the Middle Eastern landscape even today. There they would suffer in silence, ignored by their bretheren unless some media attention was deemed necessary by those claiming to speak for Palestinians but who were really driving their own agenda. Driven to despair by the selfishness and cruelty of their fellow Arabs, when they hit bottom they snap. With no hope left, they decide to check out, to head home, to get a little face time with Allah and enjoy the sexual pot pourri that is their own personal harem of 72.

But instead of holding their Arab brothers responsible for their plight and demanding that Arab countries do the right thing by them, 60 years worth of propaganda and education have erased the Arab’s culpability in the matter of the Palestinian question and substituted the Jews. Thus Palestinian homicide bombers attack the Jews, international media fault and castigate the Jews, and finally, it seems even the Jews themselves are blaming the Jews.

But the truth is far different than the story you’ve been told. Now that you know, I wonder what you’ll do. In case you were thinking, where did Blue Collar Muse get all these strange notions about Arabs and Palestinians? The answer is, from the Arabs and Palestinians, of course.

The quotes and sources for this article follow. They were interesting enough I wanted to include them here but not in the body of the post. You can check them out for yourself if you’ve a mind to.

The quotes below are contained in Walid Shobeat’s book, ‘Why I Left Jihad’. In my copy, they appear on pages 147-151.

Abu Mazen wrote in an article titled, ‘What We Have Learned and What We Should Do’, published in Falastin eth-Thawra, Revolutionary Palestine, the official journal of the PLO, Beirut, March 1976

The Arab armies entered Palestine to protect the Palestinians from the Zionist tyranny but instead, they abandoned them, forced them to emigrate and to leave their homeland … The Arab states succeeded in scattering the Palestinian people.

Khaled al-Azm, who served as Prime Minister of Syria in 1948 and 1949, wrote in his memoirs that among the reasons for the Arab failure in 1948 was

… the call by the Arab Governments to the inhabitants of Palestine to evacuate it and to leave for the bordering Arab countries, after having sown terror among them … Since 1948 we have been demanding the rerturn of the refugees to their homes. But we ourselves are the ones who encouraged them to leave … We have brought destruction upon a million Arab refugees, by calling upon them and pleading with them to leave their land, their homes, their work and business … (Source - Khaled al-Azm’s memoirs, Beirut, 1973, part 1, pp. 386-387)

Harry C. Stebbens, who was an official in the British Mandatory Government in Palestine in 1947-48, wrote:

Long before the end of the British mandate, between January and April, ‘48, practically all my Arab Palestinian staff of some 200 men and women and all of the 1800 labor force had left Haifa in spite of every possible effort to assure them of their safety if they stayed. They all left for one of more of the following reasons:

1. The Arab terrorism engendered by the November, 1947, U.N. partition resolution frightened them to death of their imaginative souls and they feared Jewish retaliation.
2. Propagandists promised a blood bath as soon as the mandate ended in which the streets of all the cities would run with blood.
3. The promised invasion by the foreign Arab armies (which started on May 14, 1948, with the Arab Legion massacre of some 200 Jewish settlers at Kfar Etzion) was preceded by extensive broadcasts from Cairo, Damascus, Amman, and Beirut to the effect that any Arabs who stayed would be hanged as collaborators with the Jews.

It is true that the massacre of Deir Yassan (always quoted by the Arabs) caused some refugees. But the massacre of Kfar Etzion, the massacre of the hospital convoy which killed 48 Jewish doctors and nurses, and the continued shelling and blasting of Jewish settlements for more than 20 years, has not caused one single Israeli to move away. They sit tight, if necessary, in their shelters, while across the river where the shooting comes from, the towns and villages are deserted, last year’s crops still rot on the trees and the refugees move still further away from any trouble. (source - Harry C. Stebbens, London Evening Standard, January 10, 1969)

On September 6, 1949, the Beirut Telegraph carried an interview with Emile Ghoury, Secretary of the Palestinian Higher Committee, in which he said: “The fact that there are these refugees is the direct consequence of the act of the Arab states in opposing partition and the Jewish state.”

The Jordan daily, Falastin, stated in February, 1949: “The Arab states which had encouraged the Palestine Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies, have failed to keep their promises to help these refugees.”

As late as October 12, 1963, the Cairo daily, Akhbar el-Yom, recalled: “15 May, 1948 arrived … on that very day the Mufti of Jerusalem appealed to the Arabs of Palestine to leave the country, because the Arab armies were about to enter and fight in their stead …”

A British police report to Jerusalem Headquarters in April 26, 1948 attested: “Every effort is being made by the Jews to persuade the Arab population to stay and carry on with their normal lives …”

In Haifa, on April 27, 1948, the Arab National Committee refused to sign a truce, reporting in a memorandum to the Arab League Governments: “…when the delegation entered the conference room it proudly refused to sign the truce and asked that the evacuation of the Arab population and their transfer to neighboring Arab countries be facilitated … The military and civil authorities and the Jewish representatives expressed their profound regret. The mayor of Haifa adjourned the meeting with a passionate appeal to the Arab population to reconsider its decision …”

“The refugees were confident that their absence would not last long, and that they would return within a week or two. Their leaders had promised them that the Arab Armies would crush the ‘Zionist gangs’ very quickly and that there was no need for panic or fear of a long exile.” (source - Msgr. George Hakim, Greek Catholic Bishop, Sada al Janub, May 5, 1948, Beirut, as quoted in London times, August, 1948)

“Of the 62,000 Arabs who formerly lived in Haifa not more than 5,000 or 6,000 remained. Various factors influenced their decision to seek safety in flight. There is but little doubt that the most potent of the factors was the announcements made over the air by the Higher Arab Executive, urging the Arabs to quit … It was clearly intimated that those Arabs who remained in Haifa and accepted Jewish protection would be regarded as renegades.” (source - The Economist, October 2, 1948, London)

All of the above statements were written while the exodus of refugees-to-be was still taking place. Let’s look at statements made after the fact:

“The Arab states encouraged the Palestinian Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies.” (source - Falastin, editorial, February 19, 1949, Amman)

“The Arab exodus, initially at least, was encouraged by many Arab leaders, such as Haj Amin Al-Husseni, the exiled pro-Nazi Mufti of Jerusalem, and by the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine. They viewed the first wave of Arab setbacks as merely transitory. Let the Palestine Arabs flee into neighboring countries. It would serve to arouse the other Arab peoples to greater effort, and when the Arab invasion struck, the Palestinians could return to their homes and be compensated with the property of Jews driven into the sea.” (source - Kenneth Bilby, New Star in the Near East, pp. 30-31, New York, 1950)

“The Secretary General of the Arab League, Azzam Pasha, assured the Arab peoples that the occupation of Palestine and of Tel Aviv would be as simple as a military promenade … He pointed out that they were already on the frontiers and that all the millions the Jews had spent on land and economic development would be easy booty, for it would be a simple matter to throw Jews into the Mediterranean … Brotherly advice was given to the Arabs of Palestine to leave their land, homes, and property and to stay temporarily in neighboring fraternal states, lest the guns of the invading Arab armies mow them down.” (source - Habib Issa, in the daily US-published Lebanese newspaper, Al-Hoda, June 8, 1951, New York)

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