"The 'Wild Card' to Present Middle East History"                                                                                                                               

Questions and Answers are cited below as "Q" and "A"

1. Q: To what am I referring?

A: To the unexpected victory of the dogmatic and violent Hamas in the recent so-called "Palestinian" elections.

John Kifner in the New York Times, Sunday, January 29, 2006, p.4, describes this victory of the uncompromising and violent Hamas as "... Wild Card to Power."

This is because of Hamas's . . . "constitutional" position on dealing with Israel as covenanted in 1988, viz "The land of Palestine is an Islamic trust left to the generations of Muslims until the day of resurrection. It is forbidden to anyone to yield or concede part or all of it. The solution of the problem will only take place by holy war."

Kifner tells us "that language has led most Israelis to dismiss any possibility of dealing with Hamas on the grounds that its goal is to wipe out Israel as a Jewish state."

2. Q: When, if at all, was this so-called "Islamic trust" left to the generations of Muslims? And what is the territory of this claimed trust?

A: Prior to the present century, there is no mention of "Palestinians" except as a reference to the Hebrews.

Rome fastened the name of "Philistines" (not "Palestinians") as part of Rome's exiling of the Hebrews from their millennia-old "homeland," ("Eretz Yisrael") as of the end of the late 1st and early 2nd Centuries A.D. This was intended by Rome as punishment for Israel's daring to revolt twice against Rome.

3. Q: During that purported exile, - did civilized peoples refer to the territory as the "Holy Land" and did the famous Samuel Clemens [popular name "Mark Twain" as reference to his knowledge of and his use of that symbolism in living on the Mississippi River and having written the famous book "Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn"] conduct a large travel party to the "Holy Land" in 1867?

A: Yes. America's favorite American, Mark Twain included the "Holy Land" in his travelers' visit. He published a journal of his travels in 1869, "Innocents Abroad."

4. Q: And did these and any other impartial observers see any evidence of an Arab "Trust" for the Holy Land?

A: No. Not a mention of anything like a "trust" for Arabs or Islam.

5. Q: And how did Mark Twain and his party and others describe the "Holy Land"?

A: As despoiled, rotted remains. Queen Victoria's counselor and Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli described Jerusalem as "a place where wolves howled in the streets."

6. Q: With world support from the League of Nations, did the Hebrews achieve at the last quarter of the 19th Century a renaissance of the Jewish homeland?

A: By about the first quarter of the 20th Century the residents had already achieved an agricultural, manufacturing, civilized state, protected by the League of Nations Mandate extended to Great Britain to protect the renaissance of the Jewish people.

7. Q: And did the Hebrews welcome the Arabs mostly from other Arab areas, seeking work in the new and prosperous Israeli mandated state? A: Yes.

8. Q: Does the evidence show any threatening or violent conduct of Jews against Muslims or so-called religious Arabs?

A: Not at all. Impartial history shows the Jews occupying the "Holy Land" (except for the period of exile) for at least 3 millennia before the present era.

Thomas Cahill tells us in his celebrated volume, "The Gifts of the Jews" how a tribe of desert nomads changed the way everyone thinks and feels.

9. Q: What does that impartial history show of the Jews in pre-1492 Spain?

A: It shows they and their Semitic cousins, the Arabs, were the means by which the culture of the ancient Greeks was advanced eventually to the enlightenment of the 15th Century A.D.

10. Q: What does impartial history reveal as to how the Jews and Arabs came to Spain?

A: The Jews were the warriors assisting their Arab cousins in the conquest of Spain which ripened into cultures of philosophy, agriculture, medicine, including in Cairo and Morocco.

In the course of this, Algebra was invented by then Arabs and no Arabs called themselves then or thereafter "Palestinians" until they had lost all wars in the 20th Century to throw the Hebrews out of their recovered homeland.

11. Q: Is there any reasonable solution for the division between the Semitic cousins?

A: Yes. The United Nations has made several reports on the Arab people and how they can be lifted from their present degraded status.

The UN reporting on the Arab people, cautioned them against blaming the so-called "Zionist entity" for their condition.

12. Q: What happened after the Spanish Christians had overcome the Semitic cousins in 1492, and exiled them from Spain?

A: The Jews continued their growth, but remaining open to assist their Semitic Arab cousins with such lift from degradation as they might require, - notwithstanding their oil-borne wealth. Thus far, the offer has been rejected by the Arabs, whose pattern is to blame the Jews for their downfall.

13. Q: What is the logical way out of the "Wild Card" and Arab-Israeli conflict?

A: Talk of reducing Israel's "territory" by turnover to the Arabs is no formula at all. Israel has already joined in reduction of its 45,000 sq. mi. state to an almost undefendable remaining 10,500 sq. mi. territory?

14. Q: Is territory the problem?

A: Definitely not. The Arabs already control 3_ million square miles of the Middle East, - most of it poorly developed except for what has been opened up through foreign experts working for the oil industry, and reinvested by the Arab beneficiaries of the oil in flashy resorts of the Middle East.

If the Arabs and the Jews returned to cooperation, instead of violence, the territory which is now the seat of a virtual civil war can be returned to the Eden status it had in Biblical times.

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