Those Who Ignore History Do Not Understand Islam

Willis Eschenbach / 4 days ago (Nov. 6, 2023) – from A rose by any other name website

My cmnt: Willis has some of the best info on Islam and its murderous doctrines foisted upon the world since its inception in the 7th century. Nothing much has changed. Click the link above to read the entire piece.

A bit of history for those interested.

Three thousand years ago or so, there was a country called “Israel”, inhabited by 12 tribes of Jewish people. They built a Temple, built a civilization, and then some savages swept in, destroyed the Temple, and kicked their butts. No more Israel.

Then centuries later, the Jewish tribes got together, built a new Temple, re-established Israel, then some other bunch of different savages swept in, destroyed the Temple, and kicked their butts. Again. No more Israel.

But the Jews still were the majority of the people living in that part of the Middle East. Not only that, but that majority continued up to the present.

The whole area was conquered by the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire around the year 1500. One of the Administrative Regions of the Ottoman Empire was called “Palestine”

The first modern census of the Palestine Administrative Region was by a most curious fellow around 1700. Adriaan Reland was a geographer, map maker, traveler, and linguist. He spoke several European languages plus Arabic, Ancient Greek, and Hebrew.

His book “Palaestina ex Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata” (Palestine and its Monuments Faithfully Illustrated) was written in 1695. Reland traveled the area, carefully documenting nearly 2,500 settlements, many mentioned in the Bible or the Talmud.

He first created a map of Palestine and marked each settlement mentioned in the Bible or the Talmud with its original name. If the original name was in Hebrew, he marked it with the corresponding passage in the Holy Scriptures where the name was mentioned. If the original name was of Roman or Greek origin, he provided the Latin or Greek equivalent.

In the end, he compiled a census of the population based on these settlements. Here are some key findings and facts:

• The land was mostly empty. The main population centers were in Jerusalem, Acre, Safed, Jaffa, Tiberias, and Gaza.
• The majority of the population was Jewish. Most of the rest were Christians and a few Muslims, mostly Bedouin.
• Around 550 people lived in Gaza, half Jewishm half Christian.
• The only exception was Nablus (now Shechem), where about 120 people from the Muslim Nashash family lived alongside approximately 70 “Samaritans.”
• In Nazareth, the capital of Galilee, about 700 people lived, all of whom were Christians. I found this most interesting. Even in the year 1700, it was Jews most everywhere except Nazareth, which was all Christian.
• In Jerusalem, there were around 5,000 people, mostly Jews, with a few Christians.
• In 1695, it was well-known that the roots of the country were Jewish.
• There was not a single settlement in Palestine with Arabic origins in its name.
• Most settlements had Hebrew original names, with some having Greek or Latin origins, which had been adapted into Arabic names that held no meaning in the Arabic language. For example, names like Acre, Haifa, Jaffa, Nablus, Gaza, or Jenin had no philological or historical Arabic roots.

Reland only mentioned Muslims as seasonal agricultural or construction laborers who came to the cities. He found that the Palestine Administrative Region was primarily Jewish, secondarily Christian, with a few Muslims.

From Reland’s time to WWII, the Christian, Jewish and especially the Islamic populations of the Palestinian Administrative Region of the Ottoman Empire continued to increase.

So to be clear, until after WWII there never was a country called “Palestine”. Until the end of WWI, what was called Palestine was a 20th Century administrative region of the Ottoman Empire, in much the same way that Nevada is a state of the US. Like Nevada, it had local administrators issuing driver’s licenses and performing the usual administrative actions. But it wasn’t any more of a country than Nevada is. And after that, it became part of a British Mandate under the League of Nations

After WWII, the questions arose of a) what to do with the millions of Jews displaced, imprisoned, robbed, and enslaved by the Nazi regime, and b) what to do with the remnants of the now-defunct Ottoman empire? The Brits didn’t want them. It needed to be broken up, but how?

In an effort to solve two problems at once, it was decided, whether rightly or wrongly is now immaterial, that the Palestine Administrative Region of the Ottoman Empire would be divided, with part given to the Muslims, and part to the Jews. Two brand new countries would be created, modern Palestine and modern Israel.

Of course, nobody was entirely happy with this compromise. But that’s generally a sign of a good result. The Jews said Arabs could remain and become citizens or leave. And many did stay and become citizens. And you’d think that the citizens of the new country of Palestine would celebrate their success in becoming self-governing.

But nooo … on the very day the new state of Israel was announced, five Islamic nations surrounding Israel all attacked Israel. Armies from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia tried their very best to kill every Jew and drive them all out of the Middle East forever.

And in a move of colossal world-class greed and stupidity, rather than declare themselves neutral like Switzerland and celebrate their new-found independence, the new Palestinian state allied themselves with and joined in the war on the side of the Islamic nations, and guess what?

THEY LOST THE WAR THEY STARTED! AND IN THE PROCESS THEY LOST LAND!

And yes, during the war, people were sometimes driven from their villages or lost ancestral land they’d lived on for generations. And yes, during the war there were civilian casualties.

That’s what happens when you ally yourself with the wrong side and you lose a war. Get over it.

And everything that has happened since then grows out of the fact that the Muslims ganged up to kill all the Jews, and against overwhelming odds Israel kicked the Muslims’ butts, and the Palestinians have been complaining about it ever since, saying boo hoo, it’s unfair.

What’s unfair is a bunch of populous Muslim nations starting a war to kill every Jew in the Middle East on the day the State of Israel was announced. Palestinians joined the losing side in that murderous madness, and they got a much better deal than they deserved at the end of the war.

It gets worse. The Islamic nations tried it again, twice. Each time, the Palestinians ignored their recent history lessons and sided with the Arab nations, and guess what?

THEY LOST BOTH OF THOSE WARS! AND IN EACH WAR THEY LOST MORE LAND!

Buy a history book. That’s what has happened since time immemorial when you lose a war.

And now, following the 10/7 senseless, militarily meaningless massacre of Jewish innocents, THEY’RE LOSING THIS CURRENT WAR THEY STARTED!

I mean, how many times do y’all Palestinians need to get your butts kicked until you wake up and smell the coffee?