Newspapers and magazines in London have been running a propaganda campaign for Israel that also includes posters on roadsides. The title of the campaign is “In the Beginning,” and it talks about a book entitled “Israel: The Hidden Gems,” the first of a trilogy. Damn them (if readers will pardon me). The entire country – Palestine – has been stolen, and now they have nothing better to do than steal words from the Bible, beginning with the first chapter of Genesis: “In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth,” and from the New Testament, specifically from Chapter One of the Gospel of John, which begins with the words “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” These passages mean that God said, “Let there be, and it was so”, or as the Arab philosophers al-Kindi and al-Farabi put it, “The creator of everything from nothing," that is, He brought existence into being out of nonexistence. Israel was not in the beginning, or in any stage of history. It came into existence when Zionists stole the land of Palestine. If they are going to lie, it would have better for them to quote the Torah, not Christianity, which conflicts with and denies their religion. The propaganda in three London Sunday magazine supplements bear no slogan, not even in small letters, indicating that it is a campaign, even though it should have, based on the codes and ethics of journalism. This is despite the fact that the propaganda and stolen title, after the entire country was stolen, is talking about northern Israel, or the Galilee, which is Palestinian land with a majority that has remained Palestinian after occupation and displacement, athough I am unaware of the most recent population figures, after Israeli settlers have infested all parts of Palestine. The map uses the same color for the occupied Golan Heights, as if it is a part of Israel. However, I would like to discuss Acre, and describe it as the last attempt to hold on by the Crusaders. Is this Israeli history? Where is Salah al-Din? We should remember that after conducting a truce with Acre, the Muslims were late in paying the tribute money that was agreed to with the Crusaders; this caused King Richard to gather the Muslim hostages together and kill them all, even though Salah al-Din had pardoned before 3,000 Crusaders in Jerusalem after the city was conquered, when they were unable to pay the royalties that had been imposed on them. From the treachery of 900 years ago to the treachery of today. I will suffice with quoting a New York Times article that was published a few days ago by the Israeli writer Gershom Gorenberg, entitled "Israel's Other Occupation.” Gorenberg, who is the author of "The Other Israel,” talks about Acre in the context of Israeli settlers waging another war, in order to occupy the homes and property of Palestinians. He quoted a yeshiva student who says the war is "not a war with guns. It's a war of light against darkness.” The article pointed to the burning of the mosque in the village of Tuba Zangaria on 3 October of this year, and said that extremist settlers have for years been waging a campaign of low-level violence against their Palestinian neighbors. They have been destroying their properties, desecrating their mosques, and sometimes injuring people in what they call "price tag" attacks. As a price for what, I ask. The price of their not offering their homes as gifts to the settlers? It is a long article, and it is full of details about an undeclared war against the people of the Galilee. I remind readers that the writer is Israeli, and there are many fair Israelis, who work for peace and defend the rights of the Palestinians. At approximately the same time, The Washington Post published an article written by Joel Greenberg, of which two paragraphs read: “At a museum just off the desert road from Jerusalem to Jericho in the West Bank, the artifacts of a contested heritage are on display. Colorful mosaic floors from Byzantine-era churches and synagogues, inscriptions, Roman capitals and stone burial boxes — all dug up by Israeli archaeologists in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip — are shown at the site.” Do readers notice anything in the above? The writer talks about the ruins of Jewish synagogues; there were Jews in the Arabian Peninsula and the countries located north of there, certainly. However, there was never any kingdom of any type, or kings. Everything repeated today is based on the Torah, i.e. fables written hundreds of years after they supposedly occurred. After 63 years of occupying Jerusalem, they have not found any trace of the Jews – not even Israeli archaeologists, such as Israel Finkelstein. Stop trying to look, you desperate people. When they prepared the tourism propaganda, they stole from Christianity, after they stole the land and displaced its people.
