Jews Are a Fifth Column: A Libel as Old as the Pyramids
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Arab countries, UNRWA, Western media, and protestors have brought misery to the Palestinian people.
One of the most poignant stories from the October 7 massacre involves a 13-year-old boy named Ariel Zohar. Ariel became a Bar Mitzvah just weeks after both his parents and his siblings were murdered by Hamas. Attending the ceremony, former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau marked his own Bar Mitzvah several decades earlier, also as an orphan, after the Nazis murdered both his parents and his siblings.
The elderly rabbi told the young man of his own tragic past, and then added, “I had a good life and achieved much. And you too will achieve, and you too will have a good life, because you see how many good people love you.”
Rabbi Lau and Ariel Zohar represent different generations, one born before modern-day Israel, the other born in Israel, yet both suffered the same fate. Neither the Nazis nor Hamas murdered Jews because of a land dispute. While Rabbi Lau’s family were victims of an ideology that sought to achieve Aryan supremacy, Ariel Zohar’s family were victims of an ideology that seeks to achieve Islamist supremacy.
Indeed, from generation to generation, the location changes, the identity of the supremacists changes, yet the outcome is too often the same for the Jewish people.
But what about the Palestinian people? From generation to generation, the needle has not moved for them. Who is primarily responsible for their stagnant existence?
In 1948, when several Arab nations declared war on Israel, the Arab leaders told the Arab residents, who were later rebranded as 'Palestinians', to temporarily leave, and once they “drove the Israelis into the sea”, they could return to their homes. To their surprise, the Arabs lost the war and the Arab residents who left lost their homes. The Arab residents who stayed were given Israeli citizenship.
Compounding the plight of the homeless Palestinians, the Arab countries put the refugees in camps instead of taking them into their own countries.
Compounding the plight of the homeless Palestinians, the Arab countries put the refugees in camps instead of taking them into their own countries. In fact, in 1951 Syria sought to grow its population, giving citizenship to 500,000 Egyptians. When the United Nations asked Syria to take in 80,000 Palestinian refugees, Syria refused.
Today no Arab country has offered to take in any Gazan refugee. The overarching goal, leaving the Palestinians as refugees to evoke sympathy and undermine Israel, remains. The Arab countries failed the Palestinian people then and continue to fail them today.
The Palestinian leaders spread propaganda to gain support, especially from their willing accomplices on the far left. One example involves the Arabic word “Nakba”, which means “catastrophe”. The Palestinian leaders describe the Palestinian refugee situation as The Nakba.
The word “Nakba” was first used in the context of the Palestinians by a Syrian professor who lamented the fact that the Arabs brought upon themselves a great catastrophe by causing the refugee situation.
Few people, however, know the origins of the word. In fact, “Nakba”, in the context of the Palestinians, was first used in a pamphlet written by a Syrian professor named Constantin Zureiq who lamented the fact that the Arabs brought upon themselves a great catastrophe by causing the refugee situation. The Nakba, according to him, was not the refugee situation itself, but the fact that the Arabs were responsible for their own suffering. Now strategically rebranded, the word “Nakba” is often used in antisemitic diatribes, placing the blame on Israel.
In Congress, the far left “Squad” created a Nakba resolution to malign Israel. They conveniently ignore the fact that the refugee problem was caused by
In addition, they fail to acknowledge that throughout history there have been countless other groups of people who have been displaced, and yet had the willingness and fortitude to move forward. Only the Palestinians have stagnated.
The fact that Israel has offered peace deals with the Palestinians multiple times, but has been rejected every time, is a great failure for the Palestinian people. Ambassador Abba Eban famously said, “The Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”
Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia remarked, “It was a crime against the Palestinians, in fact against the entire region”, referring to Arafat’s rejection of the 2000 deal put together by President Bill Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
When Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia remarked, “It was a crime against the Palestinians, in fact against the entire region.”, he was not referring to anything Israel did. He was speaking of Yasser Arafat’s rejection of the 2000 deal put together by two liberal leaders, President Bill Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. The deal was so generous that Arafat’s rejection of Palestinian statehood stunned the world.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency is a significant perpetuator of the Palestinian problem. UNRWA was initially set up as a small, short-term organization created to provide basic humanitarian aid to the Palestinians. Today it has over 30,000 employees and an annual budget of 1.6 billion dollars. The Palestinians are the only people to have a United Nations relief agency dedicated entirely to them. In addition, the Palestinians are the only people whose descendants, in some cases several generations later, are still considered refugees. The descendants represent 98% of the current Palestinian refugees. Can someone be a refugee from a country he has never lived in or even stepped foot in?
Instead of helping the refugees move towards independence, UNRWA helps sustain their refugee status. They are complicit in the goal of keeping the Israeli/Palestinian conflict alive. In fact, one of the demands of the Palestinian leadership is “the right of return”, in which all the original refugees and their descendants return to Israel. This demand would put an end to Israel as a Jewish, democratic country.
Instead of helping the refugees move towards independence, UNRWA helps sustain their refugee status.
By supplying the Gazan population with services and supplies and eliminating the financial responsibility for Hamas, UNRWA enables Hamas to use its own funds to build terror tunnels and manufacture rockets.
Funded primarily by the United States and the European Union, UNRWA is intrinsically linked to Hamas in terms of its goals and actions. Hamas missiles have been found in UNRWA schools and hospitals. In addition, some of the freed Israeli hostages have reported that their jailers were UNRWA teachers.
UNWRA’s schools promote antisemitism and terrorism in their textbooks and curricula. Even grammar and math problems routinely evoke the notion of killing Jews. A sample math problem might be: If there are eight Jews and you kill six of them, how many are left?
The television shows that young, impressionable Palestinian children watch contain characters whose innocent appearances belie their venomous words. These characters teach them to use violence against Jews.
The summer camps for Palestinian children are designed to infuse the youngsters with goals of terrorism.
A common prop in Palestinian school plays is fake blood, as the children pretend to stab Jews.
Palestinian children’s toys and games contain messages of hatred and cruelty towards Jews.
The Western media and Palestinian advocates, often called “Hamas’ useful idiots”, are great enablers of Hamas. Since Hamas violently seized control in Gaza in 2007, their game plan has been to fire missiles, provoking Israel to retaliate. Knowing that the media and ill-informed people worldwide will blame Israel when civilians are killed, Hamas then uses its civilians, especially children, as human shields. This strategy has been ongoing, as Israel has frequently “mowed the lawn” in Gaza. Since it has reaped sympathy for them and outrage against Israel, Hamas has continued to use this strategy, resulting in the death of many innocent Palestinians.
The media and the protestors claim to care about Palestinian lives, but in fact, make little or no mention of Hamas’ and the Palestinian Authority’s brutal oppression, including torture and murder of their own people. In addition, the media and protestors do not seem to care about the child labor involved in building some of Hamas’ tunnels, even when it is known that many children died while building them. Nor are they concerned when Hamas fires missiles that fall into their own territories, killing innocent Palestinians.
Perhaps the saddest example of failure towards the Palestinians involves the Palestinian mothers. When children as young as 12 and 13 have tried to stab Israeli soldiers, and were killed in the process, their mothers have been known to hand out sweets in celebration. Do Palestinian lives matter to anyone?
In a 1970 interview, when asked whether time was on the side for the Arabs who talk of fighting for 100 years, Prime Minister Golda Meir responded, “I don’t believe it. You want me to believe that things will never change, that they will go on shooting and killing. You want me to believe that generation after generation of young people in the Arab countries will have no other ideal except to kill Jews. I don’t believe it.”
As the Prime Minister predicted, several Arab countries have since signed peace agreements with Israel, reaping the many benefits of a peaceful co-existence with their former enemy. On the other hand, the Palestinians who continue to “have no other ideal except to kill Jews” are the ones whose suffering persists. The pictures and videos we see of the death and destruction in Gaza are a direct result of their foolish choice.
Consider the optimistic message that Rabbi Lau conveyed to Ariel Zohar. The rabbi’s ability to move forward after his horrific past no doubt helped propel him to a good and fulfilling life. By telling his own story, the rabbi tacitly urged Ariel to reject the bitterness he could rightly feel, and instead choose to pursue a good life, full of achievements.
On October 7, Israel was attacked on the most joyous holiday on the Jewish calendar, Simchat Torah, a day when we mark the completion of the yearly cycle of Torah readings, only to begin again. Having finished the reading, we celebrate with that unique sense of gladness that arises from knowing we have accomplished something worthy and special. We know that with each new reading, there is the possibility of gaining fresh insight from the ancient words.
From generation to generation, Jews have joyfully sung and danced on this happy holiday. Next year and all the years that follow, Jews will joyfully sing and dance again on Simchat Torah.
Just as we embrace the potential to gain new wisdom from the old Torah scrolls, may the Palestinians and those who enable them embrace the potential to find new wisdom in their old thinking. Perhaps then, a future generation of the Palestinian people will have a reason to be joyful, too.
The world failed them? No their own terror ring leaders failed them from all factions you can remember before 1948! Be it the PLO, El Fatah, PFLP or whatever name they gave themselves their leadership failed them, the west was and is only to stupid to see that handing out money doesn't work, since 1948 these arabs are living on welfare made only worse by this by arafat made intifada 1 and 2, and now after 7 and 8 October not one single arab from Azza will work in Israel. They all brought this onw their own heads! Stop funding terror by the west and the un.
Jewish students should make copies of this excellent article and distribute them in their colleges. The coalition of antisemites, democratic socialists, Nazis, Communists, self-hating Jews, fascists, radicals and liberal college professors and students who took over American colleges unopposed, spewing their hatred, lies and propaganda must realize that Jews aren't terrorized and can defend themselves with the truth.
If only...
I have a lot of trouble feeling any empathy for a group of people who collectively want the Jews dead...dead...dead. They TEACH this crap in their schools! Sorry not sorry.
Excellent article. I have one issue. While you tell the truth - 100% truth in my opinion - we cannot end here. We now need to employ “out of the box” thinking to find a solution to this conflict. Rabbi Lau’s message is one that all Israel needs to embrace - we all need to reject the bitterness that we could rightly feel. Despite past rejections of our overtures to make peace, we must not despair of trying. That potential to gain new wisdom from our Torah demands that we continue to pursue peace, even - or perhaps especially - in the midst of our pain. Avraham split from Lot for the sake of peace, even though Hashem had promised all of the land to him and his descendants. We need to follow his example - in ways that preserve our security but also gives a real hope to the Palestinians.
Simple: relocate the Gazans…far away from Israel!
the ones that will wipe away bitterness will be the Jews living in israel because they have a concious they need to live with, the jews embrace life while their adversaries the arabs (pallies) embrace death and will never ever give up any hope of destroying Israel along with its Jews, that's for these rats the only way to take away their bitterness!
I look (in the abstract of sorts) at the Arab world as I do in pre white race America circ -1600AD. Native Americans lived in TRIBES just like the Arabs do and did. They had a ritual of "counting coup" (sp) against each other just as the Arabs do. If not for the Israelis living there now, and without European colonizations present in the region, the Middle East would be in constant turmoil. With Israel as a SIDE DISTRACTION for the Arabs and Persians, we have actually more peace. Take that option away and the oil fields go up in flames as the Arabs fight for oil supremacy. NOBODY in the Arab world wants to "adopt" the Palestinians because they view THAT MIXED TRIBE as nothing more than troublemakers.
Whom they created. It’s shameful how they refuse responsibility for their frankensteins.
GREAT piece!
It is not the time to judge,All these children died because they were jews- as kidush Hashem. Now all Am Israel should be united. Religious and not religious.
Thank you for your excellent article that gives some clarity.
It is time that we start changing the narrative. the "Palestinian People '' are a group of Arab from nearby countries that have been weaponized to destroy the Jews. No other group in history of mankind has been pampered so much as the "Palestinian People'', they have received tens of billions in the last 50 years, their only goal, whether the Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Martyr of Al Aqsa ... and the Palestinian Authority is to destroy the jewish people. The Arab palestinian don't want peace nor land.
Thank you for the insight of this article. I’m sharing it with others who believe “poor Palestinians”, those that believe Israel and the Jews are to blame for the plight of the Palestinians and what is happening in this War is the fault of Israel. The world NEEDS to know the Palestinians and Hamas are to be held accountable for their past and present situations, NOT Israel and the Jews!
Most definitely
I pose a question to all the Jewish people who are demanding a ceasefire in Gaza to get the 128 hostages out of the Gaza strip. If Israel makes a deal with Hamas and gets the hostages out with a ceasefire and all the Palestinians can go and live throughout Gaza. The question is: Will you as a Jew be willing to live on the border of the Gaza strip?
And if Israel doesn't make a deal with Hamas ....
It's a dispute where neither side will accept the solution that the other side is putting forward. As the article points out, this has been the situation from the beginning.
The problem is to change the parameters so that there is a mutually acceptable resolution. Given the history, we have to accept that there currently isn't a stable, peaceful resolution and that the conflict will continue.
We have to accept the reality of the human race. Israel is not alone in its insecurity. There are numerous conflicts in the world and millions of people who are displaced or under attack.
The question is: what is the best way forward given that there is no good way forward?
https://armyhistory.org/my-lai/ I was on active duty aboard an aircraft carrier when this event took place. The bomb used here should have been dropped on Gaza and there wouldn't have been any further problems. All the hostages wouldn't have been affected but all the other slime would've been eliminated. In Israel, you have LEFTISTS that are the reason this war has lasted this long. Had there been ""real"" military operating in Israel this game of a war would be over.
I am GREATLY UPSET at the loss of all innocent "our" IDF soldiers lives. I was a corpsman (more than just a plain chovesh) so my job entailed a lot than just MDA chovesh. If the fake pallys wouldn't exist - HAPPINESS FOR ALL!!!
This needs to be said again -- it is beyond time for the Palestinians to bury their grievance(s); it is time to make peace -- lay down your weapons, your guns and munitions and missiles; free the remaining hostages and grow up.
You know that and we know that, but it has yet to penetrate the majority of the Arab world.
ADS - There is a solution! FIRST - We - all mankind - need to stop pretending - we're the deities - & telling G-D - GO SIT DOWN - we're handling things now! SECOND - WE NEED TO OPEN THE WRITTEN TORAH - STUDY - LEARN & FOLLOW - THE WRITTEN TORAH COMMANDMENTS & LAWS - that 3336 YEARS AGO - "G-D HIMSELF GAVE THE JEWISH NATION - & FOR US TO TEACH THE WORLD"! G-D's COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM & The Written Torah - is what makes us JEWISH - and DIFFERENT - from other peoples and nations. G-D PROMISED US - "IF" - we will do this. HE - will PROTECT US - & those who CONVERT TO JUDAISM!
Could you please help me find the verses that say: "for us to teach the world" and "He will protect those who convert to Judaism"?
Thanks.
ADS - I appreciate the request to help you. However - I do my homework - and STUDY & LEARN The Written Torah DAILY. So I suggest as a mature person - you do the same - unless you have a learning disability & need the help to learn§. I recommend obtaining a copy of the Artscroll Stone Edition Tanakh - ENGLISH/IVRIT W/Appendixes. It's what G-D gave us. So - Study - Learn & REMEMBER what you've learned. And as you do - you'll also find what G-D said about the Convert - "GER" (In Hebrew). You'll also find G-D's promise to "NEVER ABANDON US" - PLUS - a whole lot more. Albeit - He also said He was going to punish us - for not keeping His Commandments & Laws.
I will not find those two things that I'm asking about if they are not written, regardless of how much homework I do. You say that "it is written" and I ask "where?"
The burden rests with you to show that what you are saying is true. Otherwise, I must assume that you're just making this stuff up and are an untrustworthy source.
Finally! An article that spells out clearly the real tragedy of the “Palestinians”. May the Creator grant the world the ears to hear, the eyes to see - and the courage to admit a mistake!