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Jewish Settler, Jesus, Crucified By
Arafat
© 2004/5764 Ariel Natan Pasko
Newsflash...Dateline Palestine: Jewish settler named Jesus born in illegal
outpost in occupied Bethlehem. His family builds settlement on occupied Arab
land. The young Jewish radical then grows up and decides as one of the
"hilltop youth" to go settle in Muslim Nazareth, oppressing
peaceful Arab Canaanites. Joining a settler group, he later sets up shop as
a carpenter, but is drawn into radical Jewish politics and becomes one the
most wanted right-wing extremists in Palestine. Years later, as a grown man,
he goes up to the Temple Mount in an attempted attack on the holy Arab
Canaanite Mosque, but Palestinian security forces arrest him and bring him
to President Arafat for trial. The "Rais" finds him guilty of all
the Palestinian's sins and orders his execution as a collaborator. One more
Jewish settler crucified in Palestine. As broadcast by PA TV...
Sounds crazy? Not really, if you pay close attention to what the Palestinian
Authority has been broadcasting to its people, as "history"
lately.
Thanks to Itamar Marcus over at Palestinian Media Watch (www.pmw.org.il),
who monitors Palestinian television broadcasts, we now "know"
that:
1. The Hebrews of the Bible have no connection to the Jews of today.
2. The Hebrews of the Bible were Arabs.
3. The Prophets of the Bible were Muslims.
4. Biblical King Solomon was a Muslim Prophet.
5. Solomon's Temple was not built by Israelites but by Arab Canaanites.
6. The Canaanites are the forefathers of the Palestinians.
7. The Bible is legends based on what Jews imagined and not on history.
8. The Jews of today are descendents of a 13th Century Khazar tribe with
no history in the Land of Israel.
9. The location of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is a Zionist invention.
10. Zionism is Racism.
The following discussion below, was broadcast on PA TV by
"historians," Dr. Jarir Al-Qidwah, Head of the PA Public Library
and Arafat's Advisor on Education and Dr. Issam Sissalem, senior historian
and Educational TV host, who is the former head of the History Dept. of the
Palestinian Authority University. The moderator was Mohammed Albaz.
PA TV, Aug. 2, 2004...
Albaz: "Where did the story of Solomon's Temple come from?"
Al-Qidwah: "Solomon's Temple, I believe, was built by the Canaanites
who were the neighbors of the Israelis, the Israelites...I want to state
several words clearly: the Bible became an archival document, not
representing what the Israelis and the first Jews were, but what they
thought they were, what they imagined. The Temple is the fruit of their
imagination. In any case, when our nation or our Canaanite forefathers came
to Palestine, they built the Temple, a temple in Jerusalem."
Sissalem: "We, as the Palestinian nation fighting for its freedom and
liberation, must not focus too much attention on these false [Biblical]
legends. The history of our land continues more than ten thousand years. The
land of battles and wars, [many] armies, tribes and commanders came through.
I want to point out that we should not focus much on what is called the
[Biblical] Hebrew tribes, who are in fact Bedouin - Arab tribes. There is no
connection between them and these Khazar Jews [of Israel today]. Those
[Hebrew - Arab] tribes were erased and ceased to exist and no traces were
left of them. That group did not have a pure religion. They claimed that
Solomon, may he rest in peace, built the Temple. Does the land testify to
this? Solomon was a prophet and we see him as a Muslim and part of our
[Islamic] heritage. There is no historical text that proves the existence
[of the temple] or that it has a real history other than the Bible, and the
Bible as we have previously mentioned, was written based on ancient
legends."
I won't bore you any longer with this insanity, if you "must" read
it, check out PMW's site.
But what I can tell you is, that the falsehood bothers Israelis so much,
that the usually self-flagellating, left-leaning Ha'aretz, last May,
featured an article "A campaign of denial to disinherit the Jews".
In it, the author tells us, "Years ago, a group of archaeology students
from Bar-Ilan University went to Jerusalem's Kidron Valley, hoping to save
archaeological remnants from earth the Wakf [Muslim religious trust] had dug
up on the Temple Mount and dumped in the riverbed. A Wakf official who
noticed the students began yelling at them. One sentence struck them in
particular: 'You have nothing to look for here, just as the Crusaders had
nothing to look for here. Jerusalem is Muslim.'"
According to the article, a recent study by Dr. Yitzhak Reiter, conducted
for the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies states: "In the last
generation, the Islamic and Arab history of Jerusalem has gradually been
rewritten. At the heart of this new version is the Arabs' historic right to
Jerusalem and Palestine. The main argument is that the Arabs ruled Jerusalem
thousands of years before the children of Israel. In addition to building
the Arab-Muslim case, the Muslim thinkers are formulating a denial and
negation of the Jewish-Zionist narrative. Included in that effort is the
de-Judaizing of the Temple Mount, the Western Wall and Jerusalem as a
whole."
And if you thought Palestinian insanity was bad enough, it seems to be
contagious...
Reiter - who is a specialist in Contemporary History of the Middle East at
Hebrew University's Truman Institute - points out that not only Palestinian
propagandists like Arafat and PA-appointed mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Akram
Sabri, have lost it, but both former and current Jordanian Ministers of Wakf
Affairs, the Muslim world's most popular cleric, Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi,
and others as well.
For example, the former Jordanian minister of Wakf affairs, Abed al-Salaam
al-Abadi, Sheikh Raed Salah and several Islamic Internet sites refer to
Abraham as the builder of the Al-Aqsa mosque 4,000 years ago. Whereas the
current Jordanian minister of Wakf affairs, Ahmed Khalil, has said that
Israel is intervening in Al-Aqsa (Temple Mount) affairs "in order to
build the fabricated temple there".
The Qatar based Islamic cleric, Egyptian-born Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi,
spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and a leading theologian - who
achieved star status thanks to his weekly religious phone-in program
Al-Sharia wa Al-Haya (Islamic Law and Life) on the Qatari satellite channel,
Al-Jazeera - has identified the Jebusites as an ancient Arab tribe that
wandered from the Arabian peninsula, together with the Canaanites, around
3,000 BCE and therefore predated the children of Israel in the land. So have
members of the Saudi royal family, Palestinian archaeologists, such as Dr.
Dimitri Baramki, Syrian clerics and others in the Arab/Islamic world.
And of course the Palestinians are descended from the Jebusites...
Egyptian archaeologist Abed al-Rahim Rihan Barakat, the manager of the
archaeological site at Dahab in Sinai, recently wrote in an article
appearing on the Internet site of the northern branch of the Islamic
Movement in Israel, "The myth of the fabricated Temple is the greatest
crime of historical forgery." And, a Fatwa on the Internet site of the
Wakf in Jerusalem states that David, Solomon and Herod did not build the
Temple; rather they repaired something that had been there since the time of
Adam.
So, next time you get the "crazy idea" that just maybe Israel can
make peace with the Palestinians, or that the Islamic world is ready to live
in peace, justice, and "truth," with the rest of the world, knock
that revisionist baloney right out of your head.
They're having a psychotic episode, gripped in mass insanity...
And, if Jesus ever comes back, he'll be a Palestinian "Shaheed"
(martyr) who the Israeli occupation has killed - as Yasser Arafat has stated
on numerous occasions - and you'll hear it first, on PA TV.
Ariel Natan Pasko is an independent analyst & consultant. He has a Master's Degree in International Relations & Policy Analysis. His articles appear regularly on numerous news/views and think-tank websites, in newspapers, and can be read at: www.geocities.com/ariel_natan_pasko