The New palestine Dictionary (Unabridged)

national | miscellaneous | news report Tuesday July 16, 2002 16:46 by Prof. Steve Berger

Having invented a mythical country called, 'palestine,' and having re-invented world history through the lenses of CNN, the Arabs have decided to rewrite the English language. It must be difficult to find meaningful slogans and catch phrases to describe suffering which is either self-created or non-existent. And so, the good folks who gave us hijacking and suicide bombing have turned to stealing the misery of other peoples.

Suddenly, we hear of 'the palestinian holocaust,' 'apartheid' and 'bantustans' on the West Bank, and other carefully rehearsed sound bites from AAA (Ashwari Arikat and Arafat). For example...

Anti-Semitism (an-ti-'se-m&-"ti-z&m) noun. Hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group

AAA: "Arabs are also Semites, and therefore also victims of anti-Semitism"

Study the above definition from Merriam-Webster. Is there anything in the words, "..against Jews.." that I don't understand ?!? The word 'anti-Semitism' was invented by a German journalist in the 19th century, to express his hatred of Jews - the man never even met a Moslem. If we play semantic games, and define the word as [anti] = against + [semitism] ALL semites .. then we must also define antibiotic as [anti] = against + [bios] ALL life .. in other words, penicillin is a deadly poison. Hitler's best friend in the Mideast was Haj Amin el Husseini, that noted semite and murderer of [semite] Jews. Iraq [a semitic nation] formed a nazi government in 1941, headed by Rashid Ali - a noted semite. When the Nazis [anti-Semites] occupied [semitic] North Africa during the war, they never sent a single Arab [semite] to a gas chamber or concentration camp.

Apartheid (&-'p?r-"tAt, -"tIt) noun. Racial segregation; specifically : a policy of segregation and political and economic discrimination against non-European groups in the Republic of SoAfrica.

AAA: "Palestinians suffer apartheid on the West Bank."

Last time I looked, Ramallah was not in the Republic of So. Africa; but this is a rather transparent attempt to resurrect the old 'Israel sleeps with South Africa' libel. As it turns out, there is much in common between the two countries, but not for the usual reasons given. Like the Blacks of South Africa, Jews were the original natives in Israel. There was a Jewish country named "Israel" 15 centuries before the first Moslem was even born, and Jews continue to constitute the majority in the Land. The Moslems are merely the latest in a long line of foreign colonialists who have attempted to take over the country. In essence, we Jews are the "Blacks" of the Middle East, and the Arabs are a foreign elitist element which strives for rule through apartheid. The Israeli love affair with Africa has flourished for three millennia, from the Queen of Sheba to the mass in-migration of EthiopiaÇs Jews.

Until recent years, Black slavery was practiced in Mauritania and Saudi Arabia. Moslem Sudan continues a genocidal war against its Christian Blacks until today, with mass murder, rape and enslavement. The list of Moslem countries which repress and murder Christians is long. Indeed, reports from the largest Moslem country, Indonesia, consist almost entirely of anti-Christian pogroms; while Saudi Arabia, the Arab paradigm, brutally represses free practice of Christianity on its territory. Idi Amin, that infamous butcher of Africans, continues to live out his days in Saudi luxury.

Historically, Black slavery was an Arab institution. Even as Arab slavers were ripping Africans from their homes and families, they were forcing them to adopt their own Asian religion. Unlike the Arabs, Jews have never been slavers and have never repressed Christians. Indeed, Israel is the only country in the Middle East which grants freedom of religion and full democracy to Arabs. The recent support of Israel for White-ruled South Africa was never a political statement. Just as Mozambique and other African countries conducted businessÇ with the Apartheid regime, Israel did so because it was necessary for survival.

Israel is the only country in the area which heeds the banner of Nelson Mandela, "One Man - One Vote." Yassir Arafat advocates a racially-pure state, with vague guarantees that Jews might stay on in minority "bantustans." Is South African support for racist Arab dictators any different from past Israeli support for Pretoria? Is it really based on anything more than oil, money and votes at the U.N.?

Bantustan ("ban-tu-'stan, "b?n-tu-'st?n) noun. Any of several all-black enclaves in the Republic of So. Africa that have a limited degree of self-government

AAA: "Israel has relegated palestinians to so may bantustans on the West Bank."

This is a continuation of the 'South Africa' connection. In fact, most palestinians live in a racially-pure Jew-free palestinian state which occupies 70% of Palestine - it's called, 'Jordan.' The final status map of the West Bank and Gaza would give them large tracts of additional territory, with scattered Jewish 'bantustans' [they would no doubt prefer, 'ghettos' - an old Arab tradition] in their midst.

Holocaust ('hO-l&-"kost, 'h?- also -"k?st or 'ho-l&-kost) noun. The mass slaughter of European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II -- usually used with the : a mass slaughter of people

AAA: "..holocaust in Jenin."

Fewer than 30 Arab civilians died in Jenin - none intentionally murdered. Try this at home - count to 30. Now count to 6 million ! Needless to say, Arabs gleefullly participated in THE holocaust.

Pogrom ('pO-gr&m, 'p?-; pO-'gr?m, p&-) noun. An organized massacre of helpless people; specifically : such a massacre of Jews

AAA: "...pogroms against the palestinian people..."

Anti-Jewish pogroms have been an established sport in the Arab world since the Damascus Affair in 1840. How many Jewish settlements were there in 1840? What exactly was the nature of the Israeli occupation that year?

Other terms used in recent weeks by AAA are 'Stalingrad' ["Jenin was our 'Stalingrad'], ' The Killing Fields' and 'Ethnic Cleansing.' Stalingrad saw the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Russians at the hands of Germans [eg, allies of the Arab world]. If I were Russian, I would be furious at Arafat's attempt to 'hitch a ride' on my heroism.

Saib Arikat loves to speak of the 'killing fields' in the West Bank. It seems that Saib has 'gone Hollywood.' The Killing Fields (Warner Brothers, 1984) is a movie which depicts the suffering of Cambodians under their leader, Pol Pot. Aside from the fact that Pol Pot was one of Arafat's most ardent supporters, the only comparison to be made is with the suffering that Yassir has caused his own people.

Similarly, Ethnic Cleansing refers to the butchery of Yugoslavian Moslems at the hands of Milosovic. Aside from the fact that the Arab World openly advocates ethnic cleansing of Jews throughout the Middle East, if I were a Bosnian, I would take great exception to Arafat, a fellow Moslem, hijacking my real tragedy.