COMMENTARY / OPINION
Countering Pro-Palestine Propaganda Part 6: Palestinian Refugees’ Right of Return by A.J. Caschetta
March 3, 2024 – In virtually every other conflict in modern history, when a war ends, refugees are resettled in other countries where they eventually become citizens. But after the 1948 war in which Israel fought off its neighbors and won its independence, the Arabs who were encouraged to leave their homes and join one of the invading armies were not allowed to become citizens of Jordan, Egypt, Syria, or Lebanon. Instead they were forced to live in “camps” – cities really – where they could be used as perpetual bargaining tools against the Jewish state. Declared “refugees,” their status was used to keep alive a war that had ended. The Arabs lost and Israel won.
As Benny Morris put it in 2008, “most of Palestine’s 700,000 ‘refugees’ fled their homes because of the flail of war (and in the expectation that they would shortly return to their homes on the backs of victorious Arab invaders).”
Among those overconfident Arab leaders was Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Said who promised to “smash the country with our guns and obliterate every place the Jews seek shelter in.”
Syria’s Prime Minister, Hayed al Azm, wrote in his 1973 memoir that “we ourselves are the ones who encouraged them to leave.”
The Arab National Committee in Jerusalem ordered women, children, and the elderly to leave in March 1948.
In August 1948, the commander of Jordan’s Arab Legion said that “Villages were frequently abandoned even before they were threatened by the progress of war.”
After the capture of Haifa, a British police officer wrote that “every effort is being made by the Jews to persuade the Arab populace to stay and carry on with their normal lives, to get their shops and businesses open and to be assured that their lives and interests will be safe.”
Arabs, on the other hand, dismantled or destroyed the Jewish towns and villages they conquered in the war, among them, according to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “Beit Ha’arava and Kalya north of the Dead Sea; four kibbutzim of the Etzion Bloc, west of Bethlehem; the Jewish Quarter in Hebron; Atarot and Neve Ya’akov, north of Jerusalem; the Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem; Tel Or/Naharayim – the hydro-electric power station built by Pinhas Rutenberg by the Jordan River south of Lake Kinneret; and Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip.”
Since Arabs erroneously assumed that Jews would treat them the way they treated Jews, they fled.
Escalation Towards an Independent Terrorist State by Nils A. Haug
March 3, 2024 at 5:00 am
- Both US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron reveal their simplistic, and somewhat imperialist, Western approach to a complex Middle Eastern situation, irrespective of the aims and intentions of the two parties chiefly involved: the radical Islamists of Gaza and the West Bank, and the State of Israel itself.
- “They [Hamas] told us in all of their statements that their charter is to destroy Israel and exterminate the Jews. Other countries have said the same thing. It’s also in the Houthis’ charter. It’s in Iran’s direct messaging. I think that when they tell you they want to kill you, you should believe that. I think that’s the lesson.” — Safra Catz, CEO of Oracle, ynetnews.com, February 24, 2024.
- Realistically, the Palestinian claim to Gaza is based on tenuous grounds. Gaza is not the traditional homeland of the so-called Palestinian people. They are simply a collection of nomadic Arabs who forged that identity for political expediency. This arrangement was openly stated by the late PLO executive committee member, Zoheir Moshen, in an interview with James Dorsey for the Dutch newspaper Trouw, on March 31, 1977: “The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak about the existence of a Palestinian people since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism.”
- Even if a political compromise were reached over Gaza, or, the “1949 Armistice Line” as in the revised 2017 Hamas charter, the violent struggle for control over the rest of Israel, particularly the West Bank — the “heart” of Israel — will persist.
How the Biden Administration Quietly Punishes Israel Shoshana Bryen
March 1, 2024 – Unable to persuade Israel to subordinate its national security policy to the dictates of the U.S. government and its allies in the European Union, Qatar and the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, the Biden administration has initiated sanctions and pressures of varying sorts against Israel and Israeli entities. Each has the potential for escalation, and each should be seen as an opening gambit.
The most recent move is an American investigation of the Israeli company Finkelstein Metals, accusing it of receiving what the U.S. considers illegal subsidies from the Israeli government because it is in a government development zone. What is Finkelstein Metals, and why is it important?
It is, according to The Jerusalem Post, the only Israeli company that produces brass, bronze, and copper alloy products, and it is the sole supplier of metal bars for the producing ammunition for Iron Dome. Ron Tomer, president of the Manufacturers’ Association of Israel, warned: “This is an unfounded lawsuit, which may lead to the closure of the factory. If this case is successful, it may harm other Israeli companies and is contrary to existing trade agreements.”
It is the potential for escalation that counts.
But this could also affect U.S. defense programming. “Existing trade agreements” cover a number of key Israeli systems in the U.S. military, including Trophy reactive armor, which protects American tanks for the Army and Marine Corps; and the Iron Fist protective system on Bradley Fighting Vehicles. Major Israeli subsectors for defense include parts for aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles, air-control technology, electronic components for land, air and sea platforms, airborne and ground-based engines, electromechanical devices, microwave components, and sensors.
Israeli capabilities crisscross the American defense sector to the benefit of both countries.
Jonathan Pollard and Rabbi David Bar-Hayim: Different Types of Jews [18:57] Machon Shilo
Discussion between former Prisoner of Zion, Jonathan Pollard and the head of Machon Shilo, Rabbi David Bar-Hayim
Why the World Cares About Gaza and Not About Africa – Charles Jacobs & Ben Poser | Top Story [53:19] JNS TV
Feb 1, 2024 – Many are not aware, but slavery and sex trafficking has never ended in Africa. But while the human rights community seems obsessed with “genocide” in Palestine, no one really pays attention to the massive human rights violations happening to black people in Africa. Why are human rights groups so selective? Why does the media gravitate towards and champion the rights of some while others are ignored?
This week on Top Story, JNS Editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with the co-founder of Americans for Peace and Tolerance Charles Jacobs and executive director of the American Anti-Slavery Group Ben Poser, both of whom are involved in raising awareness of African slaves and freeing them in some cases.
CHAPTER 8: Constructivism Impedes Reality-Testing by Linda Goudsmit
Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier—Reality Is [upcoming release April 2024]
March 3, 2024 – Constructivism is a learning theory that has its beginnings in the educational philosophy of John Dewey (1859–1952) and the work of Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget (1896–1980) and Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky (1896–1934).
Piaget believed that human beings pass through four stages of cognitive development based on our brain’s growing ability to think in new ways. His theory of cognitive development focuses on childhood and education. In Piaget’s view the learner is a unique individual, whose childhood interactions and explorations influence his development. Piaget believed that children act on their environment to learn, and that the function of social interaction is to move the child away from the self-absorption of early childhood. Piaget saw childhood development in universal human terms.
Lev Vygotsky, on the other hand, focused on learning as a social process and developed the sociocultural theory of development called Social Constructivism. Vygotsky considered the learner to be a social being, whose development is influenced by environmental factors. He saw childhood development in culturally determined terms, and believed that children interact socially with their environment in order to learn the cultural values of their specific society. Vygotsky believed that behavior cannot be understood outside its cultural setting, and that culture actually shapes cognition.
The divergent perspectives of Piaget and Vygotsky parallel the differences in educational philosophies and pedagogy that we see in traditional education versus today’s politicized education.
‘A Storm Is Coming for The Guilty” Warns Neil Oliver. [18:09] BY PATRICIA HARRITY
MARCH 1, 2024 – “You don’t get to shape the world … to the advantage of a tiny minority, to the detriment of the hundreds of millions,” says Neil Oliver on his YouTube channel. He adds that millions of lives have been “ruined forever” by Big State, Big Pharma, and Big Media. “The last four years have been the “most dangerous and blatant assault on freedom and civil rights in the history of humankind”
Here is an excerpt of Neil Oliver’s thoughts and observations:
“It’s palpable that the anger of citizens is rising. It’s been on a sort of slow simmer for years. It seems to be coming to a boil. The heat has been turned up, or the heat that’s already there is somehow building an intensity.
“You can’t point at any single place on the map, really, and say, here’s the seat of it. The building, anger and frustration and heat and pain is everywhere in the West, certainly. And it’s for all sorts of reasons. There are many symptoms, all coming from the same disease.“By now, we’ve all endured, what is it, three, four years of the most dangerous and blatant assault on freedom and civil rights in the history of humankind.
That’s a fact. And I make no apologies for bringing this up over and over, for worrying at this like a terrier with a rat — because the sustained abuse of our species, inflicted on an unprecedented scale, even after all these years, it remains unaddressed, unconfessed, and without consequences for the guilty — so far.“The guilty have grown sore, have been so confident, blasé, that they don’t even seek any longer to deny the coordinated global collusion of Big State, Big Pharma, Big Media, wholesale collusion that ended completely or ruined forever uncounted millions of lives.
And it is millions of lives across the West, around the world, directly or indirectly, because of policies and practices that have been in place …“You don’t get to shape the world, reshape the world in your own image, to your advantage, to the advantage of a tiny minority, to the detriment of the hundreds of millions, indeed the billions, and then play the victim when someone somewhere says, ‘Enough.’“A person cornered, a person left with nothing, or who feels he has nothing left to lose, is finally free in a fundamental sense, free to act in any way that suits.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a storm coming. And those who bloody-mindedly sowed the seeds of the whirlwind, who reaped the benefits of so doing for so long, are finally, finally feeling the change in the wind.”
You can see the full video [18:10]
Israel BRACES for Ramadan Violence; Iran FUELING Al-Aqsa Tensions [15:17] Yair Pinto
Mar 2, 2024 #israel #israelnews #israelwar
TBN Israel’s Yair Pinto reports that Israeli officials are preparing for the possibility of violence in Jerusalem and the Temple Mount complex during the Ramadan. Additionally, learn how false narratives surrounding the Al-Aqsa mosque are fueling tensions. Please join us in prayer for a peaceful Ramadan in Jerusalem, Israel, and throughout the world. Stay up-to-date with the latest developments here on TBN Israel.
Israel BRACES for Ramadan Violence; Iran FUELING Al-Aqsa Tensions [15:17] Yair Pinto
Mar 2, 2024 #israel #israelnews #israelwar – TBN Israel’s Yair Pinto reports that Israeli officials are preparing for the possibility of violence in Jerusalem and the Temple Mount complex during the Ramadan. Additionally, learn how false narratives surrounding the Al-Aqsa mosque are fueling tensions. Please join us in prayer for a peaceful Ramadan in Jerusalem, Israel, and throughout the world. Stay up-to-date with the latest developments here on TBN Israel.
Jonathan Pollard: Benjamin Netanyahu Never Pulls the Trigger [17:44] Machon Shilo
Mar 1, 2024 – Discussion between former Prisoner of Zion, Jonathan Pollard and the head of Machon Shilo, Rabbi David Bar-Hayim
What Peter Zeihan isn’t telling you about Israel and Russia Fall Out [11:12] The Tom Nash Report
Mar 1, 2024 – Here is the link to Peter Zeihan’s excellent video on this subject:
The Communist Revolution is here. Now what? TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
MAR 1, 2024 – I was struggling to decide what the next topic should be for my newsletter – and then this happened. Emerald Robinson posted this warning on Twitter (X):
EMERALD ROBINSON: “Allow me to make a prediction: the Biden regime is not going to give up power in 2024. This will shock a majority of Americans who still live mentally in a free country that exists only in their memory now. You should spend the next 8 months preparing for the end of America.”
Many people did not like Emerald’s prediction. Several people angrily replied to her post…
CHINOIR: “Shut up with this doom porn. We’re going to win, and save America.”
SCHWEIKERT: “I predict the opposite. Trump will win. Anyone remember when they said *Clinton won’t leave office? *Obama won’t leave office? *Trump won’t leave office? They always did. They always will.”
TRITE: “This isn’t helpful, Emerald. Time to put on your big boy pants and fight back. They have always been this corrupt. Trump just brought it all into the light so we can do something about it. Don’t become a black pill. We are winning this war. Don’t let people tell you any different.”
TATUM: “No, Emerald. You are awesome but this is negative. America is Americans. Armed Americans. Lots of them. With Constitutional rights.”
Z: “You are either part of the problem or part of the solution. Only complaining about it makes you part of the problem.”
But, IMHO, the most important response to Emerald’s doom & gloom prediction came from Xi Van Fleet – a woman who survived Communism in Mao’s China and is here to tell us to stand up against the same thing happening in America!
XI VAN FLEET: “No Emerald, we don’t need your predictions. We need ACTION. Understand. Get organized. Fight back. We need courage when we fight for our own survival! Fight as if your life depends on it, because it does!!!!”
Many do not know that the CPUSA (Communist Party USA) was founded two years after the success of the Russian Revolution in the Soviet Union and two years before the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. Communism has been here in America for over 100 years and now they have come out in the open. Why now? After 100 years of cultivation and indoctrination, they believe it is their time to take over America!
Xi Van Fleet just gave an interview to Tucker about the details of the Communist cultural revolution she sees in America because she lived it herself in Communist China. I listened to it all and I think you should too. I’ve heard her speak before but she made some new important points and has a new book out. Here’s a transcript.
